Warning: Spoilers ahead. Do not proceed if you have not watched the final episode of “Jury Duty: Company Retreat.”
Producers of Jury Duty: Company Retreat admit that during filming, they weren’t sure if they would get the ending they wanted for the series.
“You’re at the mercy of someone you can’t control,” executive producer Anthony King told Page Six.
Season 2 of Prime Video’s wild prank comedy “Jury Duty” ends with season 2’s “hero” Anthony Norman rushing to interrupt a meeting to save his coworker’s job.
Director King explained that one of the “core” questions they asked when casting Norman was, “Do you think that guy was going to barge into a room and knock a pen out of someone’s hand?”
They felt that Anthony was the kind of person who would “do whatever he could” to save the company if he “bonded” with everyone at the company, but “we didn’t know if he would do it until he walked in the door.”
King described it as “both the stress and the joy” of making the show.
Season 2 of the popular show follows a 25-year-old temp worker on a company trip for a fake hot sauce company called Rockin’ Grandma’s. Norman thought the cameras were there for documentary purposes and was unaware that everyone around him was an actor.
It all culminates in the season 2 finale, when Norman hears that his “co-worker’s” job is in jeopardy and storms into a meeting, dramatically stopping it.
Executive producer Todd Schulman told Page Six, “I don’t think I’ve ever felt more nervous on a movie set or in a TV seat than I did that day.”
Mr. Schulman said that if Mr. Norman had not interrupted the meeting, there would have been no show and they would have put away their cameras and gone home.
Season 1 of the comedy series originally premiered in 2023 and follows an unsuspecting Ronald Gladden in a fake courtroom with a jury of actors.
The show’s terminology refers to the main characters as “heroes” because the purpose of “jury duty” is to celebrate them, not to make them the butt of jokes, they said.
“He’s a hero to the company and a hero to the show,” Schulman explained.
As for whether there will be a third season, King said the reason for the three-year wait between seasons was “because it’s really hard to make this show.”
“Maybe at some point we’ll start talking about what future seasons will look like, but we’re not there yet,” he said.
