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Jury Duty, which spreads its prank across eight episodes, ultimately has two things going for it: The first, is that it’s condescending but not contemptuous as relates to its Joe Schmo hero, avoiding the downward-punching humiliation that has plagued so many similar shows in this space. The second is that, especially in its closing episodes, Jury Duty takes pains to illustrate how complicated it is to make a show of this type, a helpful reminder that even failures are rarely from lack of effort. Jury Duty proves that sometimes good (in a moral sense) is the enemy of good (in a qualitative sense).

Created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, the shape of the series absolutely could have been season four of The Joe Schmo Show. Producers recruited an ordinary guy named Ronald to participate in what he’s told is a reality series about the inner workings of the legal system and the jury process. Ronald is curious about doing his civic duty, but the thing he doesn’t know is that every aspect of the trial that he’s been brought into is fake, from the case to the attorneys to the judge to the other members of his jury.

Ronald is surrounded by instigating characters including an old woman who keeps falling asleep during testimony, a religiously sheltered nerd and the flirt trying to deflower him, a gambling addict with an interest in a game that doesn’t actually exist, and James Marsden playing Sonic the Hedgehog and Sex Drive star James Marsden.

So the series revolves around Ronald’s experiences starting with voir dire through jury selection through the trial and deliberations and a verdict, as the producers and actors attempt to throw him with a series of variable absurdities.