While she was on the air on The Howard Stern Show — talking about her assignment at the Oscars and Chris Rock and Will Smith episode — Amy Schumer received a text message. He immediately said: “Hulu and Endeavor Content have signed Life & Beth for a second season!” The comedian is the creator, performer and producer of the series that is available in Latin America on Star+.
The story is semi-autobiographical and features the character of Beth (Schumer), a wine distribution entrepreneur in New York City who moves to the house where she grew up on Long Island, after the death of her mother (Laura Benanti). There she meets former friends and begins a reconsideration of her childhood and adolescence, which leads her to face some traumas that made her the person she is. She also finds an unexpected and deep connection with a local farmer, John (Michael Cera) and begins to think about what person she would want to be, authentically, beyond what life made of her.
After the 10 episodes of the first season — which premiered on March 18 — Beth begins a relationship with John, quits her job and tries to rebuild her relationship with her sister Ann (Susannah Flood).
Along with Schumer (who has also worked as screenwriter and director of some of the episodes), Benanti, Cera and Flood also work Violet Young as teenager Beth, Kevin Kane, Yamaneika Saunders, Larry Owens, Michael Rapaport, Rosebud Baker and LaVar Walker. In the first season, different special guests participated in some episodes: J onathan Groff, Hank Azaria, John Early and David Byrne, among others.
In one of the episodes, Beth recalls that in childhood she suffered from trichotillomania, the compulsion to pull out her hair. In the interview with Stern, Schumer said that this is one of the many autobiographical elements of the plot: “When I was 13 I ripped my hair out so much that I needed to buy a wig and wear it at school. It was humiliating, very hard,” she said, saying that even today she is still affected by this disorder. “It was my big secret. I'm really embarrassed and I really just wanted to let it go and accept that this is happening to me,” he added. “This was part of doing it,” he alluded to the making of Beth & Life.
The series had an excellent impact since its arrival on Star+, as well as in the United States on Hulu. Schumer, in recent years, became a prominent figure and starred in moderately successful comedies, but with this fiction he returned to the conversation as he decided to tackle stronger themes than in the rest of his products.
The Endeavor Content series, which is on Hulu in the United States and in Latin America on Star+, has no set date for the premiere of its second season.
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