For the audience, watching a narcissistic actor go HAM on a birthday cake is funny, but it’s easy to see how, from Ronald’s perspective, watching a guy who has already shown himself to have poor judgment and narcissistic tendencies behaving in a violent manner might be genuinely terrifying. Heller tells me that in the sixth episode, where Marsden mistakenly believes that he is being thrown a consolation surprise party after losing out on a role and angrily flips a birthday cake, that Ronald got so upset with Marsden that the producers told him to bring back a second cake and apologize. But the mindfucks increasingly get less humorous as the show progresses. When the deceptions are low stakes, it works in Jury Duty’s favor one of the funniest moments of the show is when the other jurors share their deeply poignant memories of a recently ejected juror, prompting Ronald to express his incredulity, as the only interaction he had with the juror was when he said he was going to go to the bathroom to masturbate. Ronald spends three weeks sequestered in the hotel - three weeks where literally everyone he is interacting with is lying to him - and there are a few moments in Jury Duty where we gradually become aware of the possible implications of someone’s sense of reality getting fucked with in real time. ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ Could’ve Been a Shanda. Jury Duty doesn’t place him in situations designed to show him at his worst rather, it reverse-engineers situations where it can show him at his best, assigning him jury foreperson and making him the moral center of the group. Even though Ronald Gladden has consented to be on TV, thus implying that he must, to at least some degree, want the exposure that comes with being on-camera, the show operates from the assumption from the very beginning that he is not an asshole actually, he comes pretty close to being a real-life saint. Jury Duty does both and neither of these things. Another subgenre involves engineering elaborate scenarios to highlight people at their most vulnerable (e.g., Punk’d), often without obtaining their prior consent to appear on camera. With these types of shows, there are a few approaches: There’s the idea that only assholes want to be on TV, so placing them in front of a camera and letting them humiliate themselves, albeit under false or misleading pretenses, allows them to show their true colors. Though Jury Duty ultimately has higher aspirations, it is at its heart a prank show, in the vein of Nathan for Youor Borat (indeed, producer Nicholas Hatton worked with Sacha Baron Cohen on the latter film).
Hijinks ensue, including a jaunt to Margaritaville, the discovery of an elaborate cover-up leading to a 12 Angry Men-style showdown, and the deflowering of a juror by way of “soaking” (depending on your threshold for weirdness, looking it up on Urban Dictionary will either ruin, or make, your day). It becomes apparently fairly quickly to Gladden that this is not your ordinary trial: The case is inane, the fellow jurors written in broad strokes almost like the cast of a workplace comedy (it’s created by former writers of NBC’s The Office Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, so a man-eating millennial who wears a potato-chip bag claw as a hair clip is the Meredith, while a nerdy aspiring inventor who shows up in “chair pants,” or “chants,” the Dwight), and the jury is sequestered after Marsden, who is selected as an alternate, calls the paparazzi on himself in an effort to get out of service. 6, who believes that he has signed up for an obscure PBS-style documentary about the American justice system.
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The premise of Jury Duty is basically as follows: A group of actors is tasked to stage a jury trial without piquing the suspicions of the one non-actor, Ronald Gladden, a hunky project manager from San Diego, a.k.a. Though it purports to shine a light on the positive aspects of humanity, in some ways it exemplifies a decidedly negative one: our glee at seeing hapless people placed in situations they cannot control. Yet Jury Dutyalso made me ask questions about the trajectory of our culture that I wish I did not have to ask. And some of the gags, including one with a botched animation of a court re-creation, made me laugh harder than I have ever laughed in my life. The casting is impeccable, including that of James Marsden as a heightened, more narcissistic version of himself, providing a fitting venue for his staggering comedic talents. The premise is high-concept, the episodes tightly written and edited. Jury Duty, the surprise hit on Amazon Freevee, is a very good and funny show.
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