Hollywood Reporter Article
Hollywood Reporter
Beth’s adolescence is harder to track. On one hand, the time-skipping structure of Life & Beth feels true to the way past events are recalled and processed; on the other, it keeps the younger Beth (tenderly played by Violet Young) in a perpetual state of transition without enough clarity into what she’s transitioning out of or into. Most of the roads in Beth’s history lead back to her mother, because as Beth puts it: “No one loves you like your mom and no one hurts you like your mom.” Benanti’s Jane comes into focus only gradually, but she’s magnetic throughout as a woman whose starry-eyed romanticism can be a saving grace or a poison.