Life & Beth

Hulu
Streaming Release: February 16, 2024

Original Series

As Beth and John’s relationship grows more serious, Beth begins to examine the possibilities of marriage and having a family as she and John seek answers for their communication problems. Is Beth’s traumatic history with men, and people she trusted from her youth destined to repeat itself? And what is triggering her fears? Beth does her best to keep her relationships alive while struggling to support friends and family who are all facing their own problems while entering their fourth decade.

Episode List for Life & Beth

Episode	Date	Title	Description
10	2/16/2024	Road to Nowhere	Beth and John return home from a trip upstate and attend Jen’s surprise birthday party, which turns out to be more surprising than expected. Beth reaches out to Ann during what may be the most pivotal time in Beth’s life.
9	2/16/2024	Toxic	Beth is there for Jess in a time of need. Reflecting on her past, Beth realizes what she needs from John in order to feel safe again.
8	2/16/2024	Shower Sex	John takes it upon himself to remodel the house, making a construction site of their home. Beth feels more and more isolated both by the mess and by John’s complete absorption into his various projects.
7	2/16/2024	That’s What Friends Are For	After life gets in the way, Beth realizes she hasn’t spent much time with her friends. She plans a get together for Maya, Jen, and Jess at the vineyard and the women realize they’ve missed a lot in their months of separation.
6	2/16/2024	The Work	Beth accompanies her true-crime-lover sister, Ann, to the Dupree Murder House. During the reenactment, the sisters reveal too much about themselves to one another and the other guests. Beth lets down Maya in an possibly unforgivable way.
5	2/16/2024	Claire	Matt leans on Beth when something from his past catches up with him and makes him reevaluate his life.
4	2/16/2024	This Soup Is Gonna Be Good	Beth and John look for a therapist that can help them with the communication problems that are cropping up in their relationship. We visit younger John and put some missing pieces together.
3	2/16/2024	Nothing Can Get Me Down	Beth, John, and their friends wake up from a raucous night in NOLA and spend the day trying to recover. After meeting LaVar and Denisha’s son, Beth has a realization about John that will forever change them.
2	2/16/2024	Who Dat?	Beth, John, and friends visit New Orleans. Beth meets an old friend of John’s who deepens their appreciation for the city and one another. Her friends start down some dark paths they didn’t foresee.
1	2/16/2024	Trust Me	Beth begs off work and meets her friends at Maya’s new fancy spa gig in Manhattan. She revisits her first love. Later that night, Beth and John meet for a highly anticipated date that takes a surprise turn.

Episode	Date	Title	Description
10	3/18/2022	Kiss from a Rose	Beth decides she can’t waste any more time on regrets. She makes a plan to move forward, cut some old ties, and forgive.
9	3/18/2022	MRI	Beth gets an MRI to find the source of her back pain and, while inside, she reflects on her tumultuous childhood.
8	3/18/2022	Homegoing	A newly unemployed Beth helps John at the farmers’ market. She and John attend a funeral, which makes Beth reevaluate a lot of things in her own life.
7	3/18/2022	Leonard	Ann helps Beth move the last of her things out of her and Matt’s apartment. Beth enlists her father’s help in wining and dining a big client.
6	3/18/2022	Boat	Beth traps Ann into spending the day with her and John on John’s boat.
5	3/18/2022	Fair	Beth spends more time with John at the vineyard and tags along with him to the annual fair. There, she has an awkward run in with a childhood friend.
4	3/18/2022	Pancakes	Beth’s friends encourage her to get back into the hookup game now that she’s back on the Island, but Beth has formed a crush on a farmer at the vineyard she now reps.
3	3/18/2022	Out on the Island	After her breakup, Beth decides to leave Manhattan and head back to Long Island, at least for now. To make it work, she takes on a very “Long Island” Long Island vineyard as a client.
2	3/18/2022	We’re Grieving	Beth and Matt head to Long Island to arrange a fast funeral for her mother. Beth starts to dig through her past.
1	3/18/2022	Life & Beth	The cracks in every aspect of Beth’s seemingly great but unfulfilling life are starting to show when she gets earth-shattering news that will upend it all together.

Pictures of Life & Beth

Life & Beth — Beth’s life would look pretty great on paper. Impressive to everyone she grew up with. She makes a good living as a wine distributor. She’s in a long term relationship with a successful guy and lives in Manhattan. When a sudden incident forces Beth to engage with her past her life changes forever. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth starts to learn how she became who she is and who she wants to become. We’ll go on her journey towards building a bigger, bolder and more authentic life. Learning to express herself and living in an intentional way. A trip down memory lane is a strong source of trauma, comedy and moving forward. John (Michael Cera), Beth (Amy Schumer), and Maya (Yamaneika Saunders), shown. (Photo by: Scott McDermott/Hulu)

Life & Beth — Beth’s life would look pretty great on paper. Impressive to everyone she grew up with. She makes a good living as a wine distributor. She’s in a long term relationship with a successful guy and lives in Manhattan. When a sudden incident forces Beth to engage with her past her life changes forever. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth starts to learn how she became who she is and who she wants to become. We’ll go on her journey towards building a bigger, bolder and more authentic life. Learning to express herself and living in an intentional way. A trip down memory lane is a strong source of trauma, comedy and moving forward. Beth (Amy Schumer) and John (Michael Cera), shown. (Photo by: Scott McDermott/Hulu)

Life & Beth — Beth’s life would look pretty great on paper. Impressive to everyone she grew up with. She makes a good living as a wine distributor. She’s in a long term relationship with a successful guy and lives in Manhattan. When a sudden incident forces Beth to engage with her past her life changes forever. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth starts to learn how she became who she is and who she wants to become. We’ll go on her journey towards building a bigger, bolder and more authentic life. Learning to express herself and living in an intentional way. A trip down memory lane is a strong source of trauma, comedy and moving forward. Beth (Amy Schumer) and John (Michael Cera), shown. (Photo by: Jeong Park/Hulu)