Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched the finale of “Jury Duty: Company Retreat.”
“Jury Duty: Company Retreat” producers admit they didn’t know if they would get the ending they wanted for the series as they were filming.
“You’re at the mercy of someone who you have no control over,” executive producer Anthony King told Page Six.
Season 2 of Prime Video’s wild prank comedy “Jury Duty” ends with the Season 2 “hero,” Anthony Norman, rushing in to interrupt a meeting, in order to save his co-worker’s jobs.
King explained that as they were casting Norman, one of the “core” questions they asked was, “Do you think that guy is going to barge in a room and knock a pen out of someone’s hand?”
Even though they felt like Anthony was the kind of person who would “do whatever he could” to save a company if he “bonded” with everyone in it, “we didn’t know until he walked in the door that he would do it.”
King described that as “both the stress and joy” of making the show.
Season 2 of the hit show has followed the 25-year-old temp worker on a company retreat for fake hot sauce company Rockin’ Grandma’s. Norman thought the cameras were there for documentary purposes, and was unaware that everyone around him was an actor.
It all culminated in the Season 2 finale, when Norman got wind that his “colleagues” jobs were in danger, and burst into a meeting to dramatically halt the proceedings.
Executive producer Todd Schulman told Page Six, “I don’t think I’ve ever felt more on the edge of my seat on a film set or a TV set than [I was] that day.”
Schulman said that if Norman didn’t interrupt the meeting, they would have packed up the cameras and gone home because there was no show.
In the show’s lingo, they call the main character a “hero,” because the aim of “Jury Duty” is to celebrate, not to make them the butt of the joke, they said.
“He is a hero for the company, and he’s the hero for the show,” Schulman explained.
As for whether there might be a Season 3, King said the three year wait between seasons was because “these show are really hard to make.”
“Maybe at some point we’ll start talking about what else a future season could look like. But, we’re not there just yet,” he said.
