Expecting Amy

Warm, thoughtful and intimate, the doc is no ordinary celebrity vanity project or insider's peak reality series. ... Think of Expecting Amy as Schumer's Madonna: Truth or Dare or Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, sans the chiaroscuro pretensions of both. ... In the portrait of this artist, we finally see the effort put into being "effortless".

“Expecting Amy” is a funny, frank, open book of a documentary — sort of like a stand-up-comic version of “Truth or Dare.”

The series is not only entertaining and admirable but also an important look at what so many women, even those at the very top of their game in the entertainment industry, have to go through and pretend it’s all good when it very clearly is not.

Schumer is someone who cannot not be working, and her work is translating her experience into the form of a joke. This makes “Expecting Amy” both a poignant sort of reclamation project and an elaborate if hardly needed defense of her career.

Whether a person signs on to witness and appreciate this depends entirely on how they feel about Schumer, and same can be said of any public figure whose career depends on the public's whims and affections. And maybe it's useful to see that the story removed from the backstage version we're witnessing is even more interest[ing] and has the potential to allow us a raw and true look inside Amy Schumer, at long last.

“Expecting Amy” really has no right being a three-hour(ish) series and could have been a 90-minute movie. ... If you want to see a successful woman deal with a hard pregnancy, that’s there, in bits and pieces. At the end of the day though it’s hard not to see “Expecting Amy” as little more than a first-time mom wanting to document her pregnancy in the biggest way possible.

A mostly superficial fast-cut of Schumer's marriage, pregnancy and life on the road that never pauses to ask, why is she subjecting herself to this?