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Amy Schumer has by no means shied away from sharing the messy, unfiltered, intimate elements of her life. However her upcoming Hulu comedy-drama sequence Life & Beth may be her most private challenge thus far.
The streaming service launched the primary trailer for Life & Beth on Tuesday,and it provides a glimpse into the seemingly excellent New York Metropolis lifetime of Schumer’s titular protagonist. Primarily based on experiences from Schumer’s adolescence, which was outlined by her dad’s a number of sclerosis analysis, the present flashes between current day, as Beth faces her fortieth birthday, and a long time prior, when she was stumbling by her teenage years.
Because the trailer reveals, Beth’s life is much from excellent. She’s unfulfilled in her profitable but boring profession as a wine distributor, and he or she’s on the verge of a breakup together with her boyfriend. An unspecified incident (although it seems to be health-related, based mostly on the scenes in docs’ places of work which can be peppered all through the trailer) forces her to confront painful recollections from her previous.
“I can simply prevent a while. I’ve had over 30,000 drinks, I don’t actually chew my meals, and I’m, like, barreling towards 40,” Schumer deadpans to a physician in the beginning of the trailer. When he clarifies that he was merely asking about preexisting circumstances, she replies, “I’m a girl.”
It’s basic self-deprecating Schumer humor (pardon the rhyme), however the trailer additionally hints at a extra tender aspect to the 10-episode sequence through a budding romance with a laidback farmer performed by Michael Cera. Schumer has stated that Cera’s character, John, was impressed by her real-life husband, Chris Fischer, who can be a farmer.
There will definitely be no scarcity of jokes in Life & Beth—which mark’s Schumer’s return to tv six years after Inside Amy Schumer ended—but it surely additionally touches on the darkish realities of on a regular basis life.
Together with Schumer and Cera, the solid contains Violet Younger, Yamaneika Saunders, Susannah Flood, Kevin Kane, and Laura Benanti. Michael Rapaport rounds out the group as Beth’s dad.
Life & Beth premieres on Hulu on March 18.