Schumer plays Beth, an almost forty-year-old woman at a crossroads in her life. This is not a case of arrested development. If anything, her parents have always been stuck there. Beth has a good-paying sales job, pays her bills, and is in a relationship. Beth’s life is comfortable with all the hallmarks of making it in life, minus having a family.

Her mother, Jane (Laura Benanti), cycles through relationships, with most of them married men because her esteem is tied into “positive” male attention. Her father is a sad sack who cannot keep a job, drinks too much, and runs small cons. Yeah, they scarred her and her sister, Ann (Deadbeat’s Susannah Flood), for life.

Her boyfriend, Matt (Inside Amy Schumer player Kevin Kane, so funny here), appears to be on top of the world, but you can tell it’s a beard for him being a neurotic mess within a few seconds. On the other hand, you have a farmer named John (Michael Cera), who is so honest and straightforward he makes being socially awkward look confident.

That’s the crux of Life & Beth. Throughout the series, we see flashbacks of Beth going through life as a teenager beaten down by life and her parent’s immaturity.