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The thing about filming a sequel to a prank show—which, we’d argue, 2023’s surprisingly charming and kind-hearted Jury Duty was, at its core—is that it’s hard as hell to maintain the element of surprise. We don’t know about you, but if we’d seen James Marsden anywhere near anything that seemed even mildly boring or mundane since April of 2023 (hunting for parking, going to the dentist, waiting at the DMV) we’d have turned and fled immediately, on the off chance that we were getting sucked into a new season of the show.
And it’s possible we would have been right to do so, as Variety reports tonight that Prime Video (taking over for poor, dead Freevee) has not only ordered a second season of Jury Duty: It’s also already been filmed. The Amazon-owned streamer hasn’t confirmed any of this, but Variety quotes a source that reveals that the new season of the show (created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky) is already in the can, its new participant/victim having already, presumably, been successfully duped. Or, at least, a second season of something has already been filmed: These new episodes will apparently drop the whole “jury duty” concept, and were instead filmed at some kind of faked corporate retreat, so it’s hard to know if the series will stick with the original name moving forward.
The idea of a new season for the series isn’t a huge shock: The show was a critical darling, and showrunner Cody Heller had previously said in interviews that he and his collaborators have been kicking around potential new ideas. That being said, we’ll repeat something a lot of people said after they watched the show’s first season: Jury Duty got very lucky in casting Ronald Gladden as its unknowing main character, with his good-natured acceptance of both the absurdity of the fake jury, and the reveal that he’d been conned, earning the show a big measure of its ultimate good feelings. Rolling those dice again sounds like a very risky prospect.
