Jury Duty (2023)

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   The experiment is interesting and the production lucked out. Jury Duty promises to show us the American judicial process through the eyes of a juror as some kind of all-access documentary, but in reality, there's only that one juror who is himself, and everyone else is an actor. It's a con of Leverage proportions, built on branching scenarios, improv, and reality TV tropes. They sling so much insanity at Ronald, that he probably couldn't see the strings being pulled, but also full props to the actors who are very naturalistic in their deliveries, even when their characters are pretty zany. I thought they were pushing it by using someone who was a recurring character on Parks & Recs (and in many things besides), but he went unrecognized. James Marsden as the doucheyest possible version of himself plays the annoying celebrity pulled on a jury, which is always amusingly cringe. There's the case, but by sequestering the jury, and delaying elements of the trial as often as possible, the show does lean on reality TV, and therefore, on Ronald making human connections with the people around him. When I say they lucked out, it's because this guy does step up, takes justice seriously, but also has that sort of helpful attitude we too often reserve for strangers. Makes me want to see a season where the person isn't so nice, but for now, the show gives you a positive feeling (which a lot of reality TV doesn't). And it makes you want to know just how this was done - well, you're in luck; the 10th episode is a making of/retrospective! It did leave questions on the table, but the answers weren't hard to find online. 7 months 4 weeks ago

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