Jury Duty Season 2 Premiere Week
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jury Duty Season 2 Premiere Week
Dive into Jury Duty: Company Retreat as hosts Mike Bloom and Jenny Autumn tackle the first three episodes of the new season. The pair revisit the one-person-against-the-scripted-world concept, uncovering what happens when Anthony Norman, this season’s “mark”, finds himself at the center of a corporate retreat gone sideways. With the company’s fate, quirky co-workers, and a hot sauce empire on the line, the show takes the mockumentary reality format to new heights.
Mike and Jenny recap how Company Retreat shifts the setting from a courtroom to a corporate getaway, drawing parallels to The Office and The Joe Schmo Show. They spotlight Anthony’s role as a temp-turned-Lieutenant Fun, balancing sincerity and willingness to play along as the oddities escalate around him. From a public proposal gone wrong to the infamous “jerk hot sauce” reveal, each episode piles on the absurdity, testing how far one person will go amid staged chaos. The discussion breaks down character dynamics, improv performances, and Anthony’s reactions to increasingly outlandish scenarios.
- Anthony’s journey from unsuspecting temp to Captain Fun, and how his genuine approach shapes the company culture
- The evolving bond between Anthony and Dougie, the new company heir, from awkward inheritance rituals to hot sauce mishaps
- The surging chaos of Kevin’s public proposal and the retreat’s leadership shakeup
- Supporting character highlights: Claire’s deadpan confusion, Other Anthony’s flashlight fiasco, Jimmy’s past, and Marjorie’s alliance with Anthony
- The fallout from Dougie’s jerk hot sauce presentation and the group’s improvised attempts to keep everything on track
Will Anthony’s willingness to “play ball” carry him through even more corporate mayhem, or is the next twist around the corner? Get ready to see how far the Company Retreat can push its only real contestant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody and welcome to RHAP's coverage of jury duty colon company retreat. A rather nonsensical title for a rather |
| 0:26.1 | nonsensical show, but it felt rather necessary given how massive the show jury duty, which |
| 0:32.8 | brought back the format of the most scripted unscripted show on TV was. |
| 0:38.2 | So a few years later, it is back in a whole new corporate setting. |
| 0:42.2 | And we are going to be breaking down everything that has gone down over the course of this |
| 0:47.6 | entire company retreat and all the shenanigans there. |
| 0:50.2 | And of course, I'm joined by someone who is full of Shedding against herself lovingly so my co-host |
| 0:55.4 | through all of our coverage of a jury duty jenny am i saying that correctly yes it's very |
| 1:01.5 | important to check the name jenny very many different pronunciations of the name jenny |
| 1:08.0 | uh mckay blam um so happy to be here uh of the name Jenny, McKay, Blum. |
| 1:13.7 | So happy to be here. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, like, I, honestly, I covered the first original season of jury duty. |
| 1:24.6 | I think it was on Amazon Freebie a few years ago. |
| 1:30.0 | Rob and I cover that on the now defunct hit or quit podcast. |
| 1:35.2 | And we talked about how the fact like, could this be recreated? |
| 1:38.4 | Like, you know, it was lightning in a bottle. |
| 1:43.8 | And to our surprise, a couple years later, they've done it again. |
| 1:45.9 | And we're three episodes in. |
| 1:50.9 | And I'm feeling really good about this company retreat, Mike. |
| 1:58.8 | And I'm very excited that you and I get to do this together because it feels like the perfect combination of chaos and nonsense. |
| 2:01.2 | Could not agree more. |
| 2:06.3 | Well, for the uninitiated, perhaps myself included, Jenny, remind us because obviously us diehard reality TV fans, remember a little product called The Joe Schmoves show that |
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