Review of Jury Duty

Jury Duty (2023– )
1/10
As real as wrestling and The Blair Witch Project
9 May 2023
Everyone is an actor except for that one guy (who also happens to be an actor).

How did they turn up this supposedly non-actor. He is the difference between a great show and a total bomb. There is no in-between with a show like this and it all hinges on the "non-actor". The producers went through great pains to find this guy.

I have very strong doubts that he isn't an actor. He's too good at not looking at the camera even when the so-called action is on the other actors and far away from him. This guy will never, ever look at a camera directly - at any time. The real actors all behave exactly the same way (though even they can't resists a peek but not this "non-actor"). You and I would never behave this way. Ever.

The other actors are also too good at not flubbing their lines - which means multiple takes. It's impossible to say as much as these guys are saying and not flub many lines. All the moving parts and interactions... mean multiple takes, multiple angles. There's no way around this. No way. The "non-actor" is a part of the multiple takes.

Everyone is mic'ed. Yet this guy speaks with zero concern - as if he's in his living room speaking to buddies. He is diplomatic when he needs to be or embroiled in awkward situations - all of this he takes in stride.

Remember... there are multiple cameras, there's harsh lighting, there's a crew of people filming (running around), there's a director, there's makeup, there's a ton of activity - not - related to the actual (fake) court case and he's completely unfazed by any of it. This is years of practice.

How about all the times the camera (crew) happens to be in the right place at the right time to capture a secretive moment. This rarely even happens in real life - at least not to the degree in which intimate moments are captured here. Too funny if anyone believes this is real.

The show even dares to pretend it's real. It utterly fails when the other actors pretend to have their own lives and interact with each other away from the non-actor. This isn't being sold as 'The Office', version 2.0. This is suppose to be a reality show so Jeannie Abruzzo's interest in Noah Price, for example, and their possible relationship holds little interest if it happens away from the "non-actor". Or an actor talking about the *fake* case like it was real (away from the eyes/ears of the non-actor). We're here to see the "non-actor" because we were told everything else is 100% fake.

This show is highly rated because too many just want to believe. They are even forgetting these are actors faking a story and are getting lost in the story as if it was real.

Focus on some of the points above and you'll see this is obviously fake - like most of the reality shows & courtroom dramas that have aired before this.
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