'Life & Beth' showcases how childhood trauma can affect us as adults.
In the new Hulu TV series Life & Beth, written by and starring Amy Schumer, a 30-something woman redefines her life following the sudden loss of her mother, Jane . As Beth forgoes her Manhattan lifestyle and spends more time in her hometown on Long Island, she is confronted by flashbacks of events from middle school that she had mostly buried. Many of the flashbacks involve moments with her mother, her father, her sister, bullies at school, and her ex-best friend, Liz .
For example, Ann is very young when the family is evicted from their home, and Beth is the one to comfort her and tell her that “only losers live in big houses” when they realize how much smaller their new house is. In fact, Beth is there for Ann even when it means concealing her own feelings. Beth helps her dad to make Ann laugh when she knows he is struggling to be there for them, and distracts her with pizza when Liz’s mom is outside yelling at their mom.
Behind Jane’s devotion to keeping up her image is her need for male attention. Jane introduces Beth and Ann to multiple men throughout Beth’s MRI flashbacks, and very clearly believes that her worth resides in their desire. Jane so requires a man that she is willing to allow her daughter to lose her best friend over her romantic choices.
Other flashbacks that Beth experiences, and which partially explain her socially secluded behavior as an adult, are her repeated run-ins with bullies at school. In one instance, Beth remembers when she thought that her and a few other girls were fully flashing the boys in exchange for beer, but they didn’t lift their bras. The boys laugh at her and call her nipples “pancakes.” The next day at school, they make fun of her again, until Liz tells them to shut up and pulls Beth away.
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