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Jury Duty
2023 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky
The inner workings of an American jury trial through the eyes of one particular juror, Ronald Gladden. Gladden is unaware the entire case is fake, everyone except him is an actor and everything that happens — inside the courtroom and out — is carefully planned.
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This is why I pay to get rid of ads in things I like. Podcasts and TV are the big ones.
I just started watching season 2 of Jury Duty on Amazon. I had deleted the app when they announced that as a paying subscriber I would be getting ads.
Oh my God the ads are so horrible. So much worse than I remember.
Also, extra kudos to Amazon for nearly doubling the price of removing the ads the week before the show came out. How nice of them.
Funny, I don't see it as being prescient or having parallels at all.
The Truman Show is the story of a man thinking he lives in the real world (he is not aware of being a star and has no desire to be one), and discovering his world is actually a TV show set. And whether he will choose to escape his entire gaslit "reality".
I don't really see what it has to do with Donald Trump or TikTok. That aspect of the modern world is about people wanting to be stars. While The Truman Show was about the exact opposite of that.
Sure they both involve reality TV, but I don't really see anything "prescient" about the movie. I do wonder if it was a little bit of inspiration for last year's Jury Duty [1] though...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Duty_(2023_TV_series)
The Jury Duty (2023) TV series is like a real life Truman show. If they really did what they said (Jury Service, but everyone, including the Judge and clerks is an actor except the main "star") then I feel really bad for him. The reveal episode is cringe. I just hope he is really an actor too.