Jury Duty has become a big hit for Amazon Freevee. The executive producers of the series, David Bernad and Todd Schulman, think the concept behind the series is ‘infinitely repeatable.’ So there is a good chance the series may be renewed for a second season.
Season one of the docu-comedy stars James Marsden, Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, Brandon Loeser, Edy Modica, Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola, Kerry O’Neill, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, and Evan Williams. The season follows a jury trial where everyone is an actor except for one jury member, a solar contractor from California named Ronald Gladden, who believes he’s taking part in an actual trial.
Bernad said the following about continuing the Amazon Freevee series, per Variety:
“One of the initial premises of the show was it is a jury trial, but we sold it as every day you’re on trial, every day you’re confronted with situations and opportunities to make a decision. The show’s very specifically built where every episode someone brings a premise to Ronald and it’s Ronald deciding how he’s going to interact. All those [bits] were for the idea, “Can you then give [Ronald] the confidence to then be the hero in Episode 7?” I think we can take that same theme and premise and apply it to other areas outside of a jury trial.”
Schulman also spoke about the popularity of Jury Duty:
“One of the reasons maybe the show has resonated with people is it’s all too rare to see being a good person celebrated. I think that’s an infinitely repeatable core concept, that core element of the show we can do again potentially in other worlds. I do think there are opportunities, but we haven’t gotten too deep into that yet.”
Jury Duty has not yet been officially renewed by Amazon Freevee.
What do you think? Have you watched Jury Duty on Freevee? Do you want to see a second season of this docu-comedy?
I like it. I hope it comes back.
Brilliantly written. And acted. And very, very funny. Kudos.
I saw the show, it was great but, how much i have to believe that the “innocent” jury is not involved in the scam? i mean, in some scenes there are few of the actors that are laughing, in the scene in where the defendant lawyer was showing the animation, the other party was laughing so hard.
Everyone is in on it except Ronald. And they were laughing because they hadn’t seen that animation yet. They said this in the last episode.