‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Review: Amazon’s Comedy-Reality-Hoax Hybrid Returns for a Sweeter, Blander Second Season

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Should Anthony Norman ever need to apply for another job — as one assumes he will, since the one he thought he had has turned out to be fake — he could hardly do better for a recommendation letter than the eight half-hours of Amazon’s Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat. Over the course of a weeklong offsite, the 25-year-old Nashvillian, ostensibly hired as a temp HR assistant, proves himself to be an absolute dream of an employee: endlessly kind, unfailingly helpful, cool under pressure and loyal in a crisis.

The series should also serve as a strong calling card for the actors involved with tricking Anthony into thinking he’s just a temp HR assistant helping with a weeklong offsite, and not the star of the second season of Amazon’s sleeper hit comedy-reality-prank show from 2023. A few of them probably veer a bit too sitcom-y in their performances, but for

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