52 | MARCH 17 • 2022 

SCHUMER’S NEW SERIES, 
WEWORK FIASCO, NEW 
SIT-COM

Life & Beth is a limited 
series that will begin 
streaming on Hulu March 
18. All 10 episodes will 
be released then. This 
comedy/drama stars Amy 
Schumer, 40, as Beth. 
Schumer also wrote and 
directed the series. 
The advance publicity 
doesn’t reveal that much. 
Here’s the gist of what it 
says. Beth is seemingly 
doing fine. She makes 
a good living as a wine 
distributor. She’s in a long-
term relationship with a 
good guy. Then a sudden 
incident forces Beth to 
deal with her past. Through 
flashbacks to her teens, 
Beth learns a lot about 

herself. She gradually gets 
on the path of becoming 
the person she really wants 
to be. 
Advance info about the 
supporting cast is limited 
to their characters’ names. 
“High in the credits” is 
Michael Cera, who almost 
always plays nice guys. I 
bet he plays Beth’s nice 
boyfriend. You might 

remember Cera playing the 
nice Jewish boyfriend of 
the title character in the hit 
film Juno (2007). 
Veteran actor Michael 
Rapaport, 51, is “high up” 
in the credits, like Cera. 
You know Rapaport, even 
if you can’t place him 
immediately. He’s a burly 
red-haired guy with a 
strong NY accent who has 
been in a lot of movies and 
TV shows. He was a series 
regular on Boston Public.
WeCrashed is a feature 
film that chronicles the 
rise and fall of WeWork, an 
office-sharing company. It 
premieres on Apple + TV 
March 18. WeWork was 
founded in 2010. It was 
financed by a Korean bank 
that invested so much 
money in the company that 
it couldn’t just walk away. 
So, when things went sour 
in 2019, it paid company 
founder Adam Neumann, 
42, $1.7 billion to go away. 
It put in others to run the 
company, which still limps 
along. 
On paper, Neumann 
and his wife, Rebekah 
Neumann, 44, were a 
model Jewish couple. 
They are the good-looking 
parents of five and are 
practicing Jews. Adam 
was born in Israel and had 
a fine, long career in the 
Israeli navy. But, WeWork, 
while not quite a scam, was 
shamelessly over-hyped by 
the Neumanns. 
Lee Eisenberg, 44, 
co-wrote the film. Here’s 
my kvetch: as usual, non-
Jews play a “very Jewish” 
couple — Jared Leto and 
Anne Hathaway play the 
Neumanns.

Welcome to Flatch 
is a Fox sit-com that 
premieres March 17 (9:30 
p.m.). Capsule plot: A 
documentary company 
stumbles on a small 
Midwestern town with many 
eccentric residents. Aya 
Cash, 39 (You’re the 
Worst and Boys) co-stars 
as Cheryl Peterson, a 
documentary maker. Cash’s 
father is Jewish, and she 
was raised Jewish. She’s 
married to Josh Alexander, 
a (Jewish) writer.
In my last column, I wrote 
about Pieces of Her, an 
eight-episode series that is 
now streaming on Netflix. 
The series has got great 
reviews and big viewing 
numbers. Vague advance 
publicity led me to mis-
describe the role that 
Jessica Barden, 29, plays. 
She plays Jane, the name 
the lead character, Laura, 
had as a child and young 
woman. Barden appears 
in tiny flashbacks until the 
fifth episode, when long 
flashbacks of Jane begin to 
appear. One bit of advice: 
stay with this series to the 
end. You may be frustrated 
that you don’t know who 
the “good and the bad 
guys” are until late in the 
series. It’s worth the wait. 

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