‘Life & Beth’ Canceled: No Season 3

The series ran for two seasons, with the final season premiering this winter.

Amy Schumer’s two-season dramedy, Life & Beth, has been canceled by Hulu. The series, created by and starring Schumer, saw its second and final installment debut on the streamer in February 2024. The show followed Beth (Schumer), a woman with “a cool job, a great apartment,” and a boyfriend (Kevin Kane) “who’s a New York eight.” However, she’s unhappy with her life following her mother’s death. This realization leads her to move back to her childhood home on Long Island, where she contemplates restarting her life and develops a relationship with a local guy (Michael Cera), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Schumer also wrote and directed the series, which is loosely based on her own experiences. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter when season two debuted this winter, she joked that it’s “30-some percent” fictional. “There are some elements that are obviously exaggerated, but some of it is direct from my life and conversations that I’ve had. Other stuff is a collaboration from the writers and the actors. It really is an amalgamation of everybody’s lives,” she mentioned at the time.

Regarding a potential third season, Schumer told TVLine during the season 2 press run that both she and Cera “really would love to do it,” but nothing was set in stone. “I think that’s something nice about the show,” she noted. “We really want it to feel organic. So any sort of ideas that we might have, we’re very down to let them go for something that feels better [in the future].”

Life & Beth premiered in March 2022. The series’ cancellation seems to be attributed to low viewership. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show never made it to Nielsen’s top 10 streaming lists during either of its two seasons. This cancellation adds Life & Beth to the growing list of shows that have been axed by the streamer.