Kudos to the creators of the reality series “Jury Duty” for taking the biggest of swings and connecting for at least a moderate base hit—because if one thing went wrong during the course of the show’s elaborately constructed, delicately executed, essentially one-joke prank, the whole Jenga collapses, and you’ve got no show.
Here’s the setup for the eight-part series on Amazon’s Freevee service (formerly IMDb TV), Executive producers including David Bernad (“The White Lotus,” “Bad Trip”) and Lee Eisenberg (“WeCrashed,” “The Office”) have put together together a documentary-style prank show that plays like “Punk’d” meets “The Truman Show,” in which we follow a high-stakes civil trial at the Huntington Park Superior Courthouse in Los Angeles County, from jury selection to closing arguments to jury deliberations to the verdict.
