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    Review: Amy Schumer found happiness. Her moving, funny new TV show is the result

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Mar 17, 2022 5 minutes
    Amy Schumer plays a grieving woman who returns to her Long Island hometown in "Life& Beth."

    In the Hulu series "Life & Beth," created and partly written and directed by Amy Schumer, Schumer plays Beth, a sales representative for a midlevel wine distributor in New York City that even her boss (Murray Hill) describes as mediocre. Though she is good at her job, and up for a promotion, her claim of leading a great life — "I am probably the most happy, satisfied person in this entire mall," she tells her lovingly critical mother, Jane (Laura Benanti), on an uncomfortable shopping trip — is clearly a case of the lady protesting too much. There is a weight on Beth; the very air seems to slow her down. When her mother dies suddenly, her lack of tears is seen by those around her as symptomatic of a disordered personality. (The show is quite

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