Amy Schumer and Michael Cera Talk Life and Beth, Hugs From Oprah, Wine, and Death
18.03.2022 - 21:21
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Life and Beth, which is inspired by parts of her own life, Amy Schumer plays a woman trying to live her fantasy.You know the fantasy. We all have that one friend who’s always floating the “Maybe I should quit my job and move to a farm!” idea. Usually, this is not a person who enjoys performing manual labor.
They twirl around the farmer’s market, shouting about “the simple life” as if getting up at 5 a.m. to sell Lacinto kale is a vacation.In Life and Beth, Schumer plays a version of this person. Beth, numbed out and vacant, works in sales for a New York City wine distributor.
Her life is shiny but depressing—you can imagine how many $16 salads she’s barely enjoyed, all the Amazon packages she’s ordered . A tragedy brings her back to her childhood home in Long Island, with all its memories of her loving but limited parents, her preteen humiliations, and the childhood best friend who no longer speaks to her. Bumbling through a sales call at a local vineyard (yes, there is a wine scene on Long Island) she meets John (Michael Cera).
John is an actual farmer: bearded, covered in animal blood, highly capable, and . He works the land, has a boat, and cares a lot about local breads and local people.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The show is joke-packed but tender, inspired by parts of Schumer’s childhood, and by her relationship to her husband . Fischer, a chef, once ran his family’s produce business, and Schumer has often discussed his Autism diagnosis in her comedy.
“In the beginning it should be easy,” Beth cries, despairing of dating John. But growing something new, the show points out, isn’t easy. Together, Beth and John find themselves in a number of odd situations: They take mushrooms and go fishing,
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