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Positive:
16
Mixed:
7
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Critic Reviews
Mar 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
If Amy Schumer does harbor ambitions as a serious actor, though, Life & Beth features her most compelling and complex onscreen performance to date. She gets many of the show’s biggest laughs, but just as often she’s the straight man to the supporting cast’s various oddballs.
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Mar 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s those little, often subtle gags, that keep the audience from sinking into Beth’s depression along with her. That effort to alleviate some of the heaviness helps us go along on the journey Beth is going to take without making her seem like she doesn’t appreciate what she has.
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Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The ambitious “Life & Beth” has flaws, not just with its early tonal zig-zags but also with length. Like too many shows these days, it could easily have been two episodes shorter, and thus tighter. But it’s nonetheless an impressive and enjoyable series that’s about the perils of letting fear guide us, the need to heal, and the choice to enjoy life in the face of death.
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Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s frequently very funny, full of bright comic turns, and often quite moving, even beautiful, sometimes just for the space of a shot, in a way that might make you reconsider a character. It’s sentimental in the end, but that is what sometimes happens when artists grow happy in their life.
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Mar 14, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Life & Beth is a lot more than a smartly scripted rom-com. ... Watching it unfold, you wish Schumer either decided to focus more on the budding romance with the weird and weirdly likable John—it’s a charmingly offbeat relationship—or cut the series down to, say, seven episodes, like HBO’s recent coming-back-home comedy Somebody Somewhere.
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The PlaylistMar 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Life & Beth” is clearly a very personal story for Schumer, but by shifting between workplace comedy, rom-com, and late-coming-of-age dramedy, it never quite focuses on how it wants to be what it wants to be. Despite its unfocused format, it is compulsively watchable and there is an offbeat charm to the whole thing that is hard to resist.
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