David Byrne makes a surprise appearance in the trailer for Amy Schumer’s Life & Beth
The Schumer-created and directed series premieres on March 18
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If there’s not a story about a messy, clumsy woman who needs to make a major change in her life just lying around, then Amy Schumer will sure as hell make one. Enter the new Hulu series Life & Beth, written, directed, executive-produced, and starring Schumer.
Schumer leads the series as Beth, a woman in an unloving relationship who also hates her job as a wine distributor. After an undisclosed incident, Beth decides that she isn’t happy with how things are going in her life. She then embarks on a quest to find her purpose on her own and outside of the office. She decides to quit her job and break up with her boyfriend.
Beth ends up at a small local farm, where she meets Michael Cera’s character. I It looks like Cera’s character is supposed to be this blunt hot farmer dude that Beth inevitably catches feelings for, but so far he looks a lot like the same awkward kid from Juno, plus a super patchy beard.
Cera, Susannah Flood (For The People), Violet Young, Kevin Kane (Inside Amy Schumer), Yamaneika Saunders (In Security), Laura Benanti (Supergirl), Larry Owens (Search Party), Michael Rapaport (Atypical), Rosebud Walker, and LaVar Walker round out the cast of Life & Beth. Kevin Kane, Daniel Powell, and Ryan McFaul join Schumer as executive producers.
Not mentioned in the full cast is musician and actor David Byrne, who in his first television appearance since 2012, pops up out of nowhere as Schumer’s wisdom-imparting doctor. We guess he had some time to wander over and film this part in between putting on a Broadway show for the last two years.
All 10 episodes of the first season of Life & Beth debut on Hulu on March 18.
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is that Jonathan Groff in the preview as well?
Yes indeed!
He’s your man.
“from the mind of Amy Schumer” jesus , don’t these people want to make money?
Not that anyone has a copyright on the Beth/death rhyme, but you’d think that with Life After Beth already existing as a reasonably well-liked movie they’d make this just a tad more original. Doesn’t bode well for the series as a whole.
Um, that movie is about zombies.
Yes, yes it is. And this is relevant to the conversation about this series’ title how?
I guess I’m confused about your criticism. I don’t think anyone will confuse these movies just because they both have the name Beth in their title. They seem to share no other similarities.
Oh my criticism wasn’t about how they’d confuse the movies, but about how unoriginal and corny that title is, especially considering Life After Beth a) exists and b) is much more clever considering its premise.
Like are we just gonna get a slew of Beth movies – Beth Be Not Proud, Beth in Venice, I Am Become Beth. The Beth Cinematic Universe.
Beaten to Beth with a Shovel.
Beth and the Maiden (also named Beth)
It looks like a mash up of Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer. Which is awesome because I like both those things a lot.
Me too. I’m hoping this is good. She seems to have pretty low standard when she’s doing something she didn’t write, so the fact that she wrote this is encouraging. I know a lot of people don’t like Schumer, but the good thing is they don’t have to watch.
I like Schumer as well, she turned into the new Hathaway and Lawrence for awhile in that suddenly the internet just turned super cruel to her.I hope this show is good, I wasn’t completely engaged by the plot, but I do like a little mid life self exploration story.
How do you feel about patchy beards? It seems to be important.
I have the Hulu version with ads. I hate the ads, but I can’t bring myself to pay extra to get rid of them.
Wow, a cameo like that comes along once in a lifetime.
This looks great, but man my disappointment when I saw it’s a whole-ass series. I just want movies now! Why’s everything gotta take eight to 12 hours now?!