David Bianculli

And in The Immortal Man, we get delightful return visits from, among others, Peaky Blinders series players Rebecca Ferguson, Stephen Graham, and Paki Lee.

And most of all, we get Knight's brilliant approach to his period dramas, the way he folds the fictional and the factual.

He's done it so well so many times for so many outstanding TV series, and I've given rave reviews to most of them.

A Thousand Blows, The Veil, House of Guinness, All the Light We Cannot See, and some that eluded me at the time, but which I've caught up with and have been delighted by.

like Taboo from 2017, which featured great early performances by both Tom Hardy and Jesse Buckley, who just won a Best Actress Oscar for Hamnet.

You can watch The Immortal Man all by itself, but if you're uninitiated in what's come before...

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.