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Positive:
16
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Feels like a return. It’s not a triumphant one, but it has touches of the old Schumer, smart and transgressive and self-aware. They’re stretched out a little too thinly over the 10 half-hour episodes, and they don’t really compensate for the overall sentimentality and simplistic psychology. But for the true fan, they’ll be worth the relatively short binge.
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Mar 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s neither as hilarious nor as moving as it seems like it could be, and the tonal shifts between “dram” and “edy” can be jarring. Nevertheless, it’s intriguing for the rawness that Schumer — who not only stars but created the series and wrote and directed most of its episodes inspired by her own experiences — brings to the table.
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Feb 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Moments of narrative candor can and do get lost amid scenes when those hilarious guest stars (including Cole Escola giving us a twist on Marie Kondo that involves the word “squirt”) stretch the show’s comedy into way-too-broad territory, often for nothing more than a quick laugh. At its best and when it hits its stride—namely, when it manages to artfully thread its comedic sensibility with its more dramatic tenor—Life & Beth can be quite affecting.
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Mar 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
What’s missing, here, is a unifying sensibility. The inconsistencies are glaring. Life & Beth’s tone lurches from realistic to absurd and back; relatively normal characters suddenly devolve into off-the-wall caricatures. ... The pieces just don’t add up to a satisfying whole.
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