'Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat' Review
- Trevor Leavell
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Season Two.
Aired On: Prime Video.
Release Date: 03/20/26.
Genre: Comedy.
The Verdict: A Must-See
When the discussion of comedy television pops up, I always try to sneak in recommending the Prime Video show Jury Duty, where a documentary crew followed regular citizen Ronald Gladden for his Jury Duty service completely unaware that both the trial and jury were all set-up by a group of actors. The show’s first season was gut busting, hilarious, as well as unexpectedly wholesome and uplifting. When the series was picked up for another season, showrunners Eisenberg and Stupnitsky chose to shake up the setting. Instead of a jury, it’s a company retreat.
In this season, we follow Anthony Norman who is hired as a temp worker at family owned hot sauce company “Rockin’ Grandma”. As Anthony joins the company, CEO Doug Womack is stepping down and transferring power to his son Dougie, and is taking the company out on a company retreat as celebration. Again, everyone but Anthony is an actor, and the genius of seeing this season play out is how the show is able to plot itself around Anthony’s actions and reactions. One thing to know about Anthony is that he’s actually a pretty sweet guy, and the cast of actors all have unique and wonderful personalities for him to bounce off of.
The actors themselves are all wonderful comedy-improv actors who really surprise with amazing jokes and chemistry that make each of them just wonderful individually. My favorites of the bunch here have to be Rachel Kaly as Claire, the deadpan IT specialist who works from home, or Marc-Sully Saint-Fleur as PJ, Rockin’ Grandma’s front desk receptionist. The antics that this cast brings Anthony on is nothing short of hilarious, and it’s no surprise that it’s just as fresh, fun and new as the first season. Though Anthony may not be on a jury, there are still eleven other people along the ride who are a jury of his character. Though the experiment itself walks the line of ethically questionably, the true beauty of the show is how the subject is truly allowed to be themselves and the good that can come from that.
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