David Bianculli

you shouldn't.

All six seasons of Peaky Blinders are available on Netflix, and there are only six episodes per season.

So even if you start from the beginning, you'll get to this new movie sequel before you know it.

Like any good Stephen Knight drama, and they're all good, Peaky Blinders is addictive, easy to consume, and impossible to forget.

I'm David Bianculli.

Jury Duty is the prime video streaming series about one unwitting regular guy who becomes part of a staged fake jury, not knowing that everyone around him is a professional actor.

Season two of Jury Duty premieres today on Prime, but in a new setting, the corporate retreat of a fake hot sauce company called Rockin' Grandmas, which is in the midst of a corporate takeover.

Again, one lone employee knows nothing of the ruse and is surrounded by actors.

The new season is called Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat.

Today, we're going to listen to our 2023 interview with James Marsden, the most well-known of the actors in the original Jury Duty.

In that show, a regular guy named Ronald Gladden had agreed to participate in a documentary about the experience of being a juror in an L.A.

courtroom.

He doesn't know that everyone around him—the rest of the jury, the judge, the witnesses—is an actor who is improvising.

They're all kind of odd, and their behavior is unpredictable, even more so than in a regular reality show.

Marsden plays a satirical, self-absorbed version of himself, serving as an alternate juror.

Marsden's other recent TV shows include Westworld and Dead to Me, and next month he joins the cast of Jon Hamm's Apple TV series Your Friends and Neighbors.

His films include The Notebook, the 2007 version of Hairspray, and Disney's Enchanted.

He also played Cyclops in the X-Men film franchise.

We're going to listen to Marsden's interview with Fresh Air's Sam Brigger.

Let's hear a clip from the original Jury Duty.