Amazon's runaway hit ‘Jury Duty’ was meant to serve as a ‘Truman Show’ for the TikTok era, but found itself an unsuspecting star in Ronald Gladden.
What they couldn’t know when casting Gladden was just how perfect for the part he’d be. In the first episode, for instance, it was scripted that’s Noah—a dorky innocent worried about his relationship with his girlfriend—would pretend he was racist to get out of serving on the jury.
’s Todd—an outsider who shows up to jury duty wearing “chair pants” that allow him to sit down anywhere—by showing him the animated movieHe sees some of Todd in the character of Flik, an ant whose inventions aren’t always taken seriously by those around him, and wants him to know, he earnestly tells the cameras, “that those people tend to be misunderstood in society.
Amazon rarely discloses viewership for its shows—including those that stream for free on Freevee—but the level of social engagement aroundsuggests that it’s found an audience. It’s certainly the first Freevee original not based on existing IP to break out. (Other shows on the streamer have included
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