Jury Duty makes my return to the Fall Finales series. Yep its been a minute. However there is a few to come. Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, Five Bedrooms and maybe or two more. Probably another Australian TV drama title. Alongside Five Bedrooms, we are spoilt for local choice right now.
The Clearing, Dead Loch, In Limbo, The Messenger, Year Of, North Shore and Utopia all currently airing. I also believe that Shane Warne series is incoming too. I don't remember a time with that many Australian dramas all on at once.
But now to a series from Amazon Freevee which landed back in early April.
Jury Duty chronicles the inner workings of a jury trial in the US through the eyes of juror Ronald Gladden, a solar contractor from San Diego, who is unaware that his jury duty summons was not official, and that everyone in the courtroom aside from him is an actor.
Everything that happens, inside and outside the courtroom, is planned. In order to find a non-actor for the show's lead, an ad was put up on Craigslist.
James Marsden stars as an alternate version of himself, alongside other actors including Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, and Rashida Olayiwola.
So was this deserving of all the hype? Well Ronald Gladden made it onto Triple J breakfast for a chat, I have heard this show get recommended around the office. So it had some hype to live up to!
I enjoyed episode one, two and seven (the ending) and eight when all was revealed. It was a different style of a show, however I wasn't completely sold.
That said in a crowded market of streaming series with many being copies of series that have come before, it is interesting to see something, somewhat new.
Jury Duty I believe is a one off, particularly since it has aired on a super big streaming service, so you probably cannot try and recreate this.
Either way, as the writers strike continues, this was a truly interesting, unique little TV experiment. I'm on the lookout for the copycat series that will follow.
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