Prime Video Renews JURY DUTY for Season 3 and I'm Excited To See What it Will Bring

Prime Video is sending another unsuspecting civilian into chaos becauseJury Duty is officially coming back for Season 3.

After the success of the original series and the recently released Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat, the docu-comedy experiment is gearing up for another elaborate fake-out.

The series has built its reputation on putting one real person into a completely fabricated world populated by improv comedians and actors who stay in character around the clock. Somehow, it keeps working.

The first season introduced viewers to Ronald Gladden, who thought he was participating in a real jury trial while actor James Marsden hilariously played an exaggerated version of himself.

Season 2 shifted gears and followed Anthony Norman, a temp worker recruited to help during a company retreat for the family-owned hot sauce business Rockin’ Grandma’s.

What Norman didn’t know was that every employee, executive, and awkward corporate personality surrounding him was part of the show. The fake documentary setup followed a supposed leadership transition between company owner Doug and his disaster of a son Dougie Jr. Naturally, things spiraled out of control.

By the end of the season, Norman unexpectedly became the emotional center of the entire operation when he stepped up to stop the company from being sold.

The production team created that storyline specifically to see how he’d react under pressure, and according to the show’s producers, he completely exceeded expectations. Norman walked away with $150,000 and a whole lot of admiration from the cast and crew.

Since filming wrapped, Norman and Gladden have reportedly become close, bonded forever by the strange experience of unknowingly starring in one of television’s most complicated comedy experiments.

Pulling off a show like Jury Duty apparently takes an insane amount of preparation. Executive producer Chris Kula recently spoke about the long production timeline and hinted at what Season 3 could look like:

“It took three years from the first one to this one, so there’s a long runway to get there. I’m thinking of maybe like a fake TV show, like going to awards functions and some someone’s duped into giving heartfelt testimony for this thing that doesn’t exist.”

Kula also talked about how stressful the production process can be while trying to keep the illusion alive for weeks at a time:

“Every single day on set was kind of terrifying, because you had the fear this is the day it could all end. Somebody could misspeak, a camera could be seen. Some element could unravel all the work we’ve done.

“So when we got to the final day of the big finale — where it all comes to a head and our hero steps up and saves the company — I woke up three hours before the call time that day, because I was just adrenalized.

“It was a high wire act, and we knew there was no second take. It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before, and I’m sure ever will.”

He also praised Norman and the casting team for finding the perfect participant for Company Retreat calling him “an amazing gem of a human. We scripted the season with the hope that the hero would meet this ideal…

“He came in with an Aaron Sorkin-esque monologue, and when he starts appealing to the CEO, and he says, ‘father to father, I need to talk to you,’ I got goosebumps. My jaw dropped. He was just an absolute hero.”

Created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and directed by Jake Szymanski, Jury Duty continues to be one of the most creatively ambitious comedy projects in streaming. It’s part improv show, part social experiment, and somehow still manages to feel weirdly wholesome.