EXPECTING AMY
HBO Max, 3:00 a.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Back in May, Amy Schumer made a TV show, squirreled away in her family farmhouse with her chef husband Chris Fischer. It was refreshingly low-key, filmed by a few static cameras and by their nanny/assistant, who operated the one handheld camera, usually while the couple’s son, Gene, is napping). That was the Food Network’s Amy Schumer Learns to Cook, a charming little cooking show that recently was renewed for a second season. Before that, and before the pandemic, Schumer starred in a Netflix standup special – and before that, Schumer learned she was pregnant (with the same baby Gene who subsequently slept through most of Learns to Cook), and decided to document the experience. The result, a three-part miniseries documentary called Expecting Amy, premieres today on HBO Max, and serves as an unofficial prequel to both the standup special and the sequestered cooking show. It shows Schumer getting and processing the news of the pregnancy, dealing with morning sickness (and sickness at other times of the day) while writing and performing her standup act, and approaching motherhood. And you thought, in Amy Schumer Learns to Cook, that that TV show was built around what Amy Schumer had in the oven…