Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat is bigger than just being Jury Duty Season 2. Yes, it’s the follow-up to the side-splitting Prime Video comedy. But the new batch of episodes has a feel all its own. Sometimes that makes it awkward, and sometimes it’s a strength. But the end result is that this is another comedy roller coaster worth taking a ride on.

As the title indicates, Company Retreat centers around the annual getaway for a small business: hot sauce company Rockin’ Grandma’s. But as before, everything is staged and almost everyone is playing a part. The unknowing participant this time is 25-year-old Anthony Norman, who thinks he’s just landed a very interesting temp job. The instinct will be to compare Anthony to Jury Duty protagonist Ronald Gladden, and while Anthony isn’t quite as charismatic as Ronald, he’s still an immediate winner. The two share an earnestness that is not only key to making the show work, but key to making it worth watching. The charm of Jury Duty is that the franchise never feels mean; the joke may be on Ronald or Anthony, but the audience is laughing with them as much as they’re laughing at them.

The characters in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat are a little broader than they were in Jury Duty. Audiences will be able to know the archetype of certain characters, and some of them share qualities with their predecessors, such as there being another one who’s the “strange one with random ideas.” The biggest knock against the season is something it can’t help: James Marsden is definitely missed. Marsden is so gifted comedically, and was so committed to the bit of playing a terrible version of himself, that he was the engine that helped drive Jury Duty. Nobody can quite reach the insane heights that he went to.

But that doesn’t stop there from being another series of great comedic performances. The standouts include Blair Beeken as Marjorie, who oversees operations at the ranch where the retreat is being held, but is quite clearly over everything. Beeken is so good that there could be a whole series of Marjorie just dealing with different groups coming through the ranch. Elsewhere, LaNisa Renee Frederick plays Jackie, the straight shooter who isn’t afraid to stop her coworkers from saying something stupid and just wants “a week away from Cocomelon.” She often says what the audience is thinking.

Anyone who’s seen the first season will be paying more attention to Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, and more likely to pick up potential tells in the scenes. That takes some of the shine off—but it also means more appreciation for just how much effort the actors and the crew put in to keep the illusion going. Viewers may know where the story is going, but it makes them more excited to see how it’s played out.

Company Retreat also punches up the antics a little bit, maybe because the show literally has more room to explore. Whereas the adventures of Ronald Gladden started calmly and then there were bursts of chaos, there are big moments early and often that Anthony Norman has to deal with. And give Anthony credit: the guy not only takes things in stride, but starts to contribute to the zaniness. But, as was revealed in the trailer, it’s hard not to laugh when he tells the camera that “This is not something you can just make up.”

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat is almost everything that Prime Video audiences loved about the original—everything that could be carried on without spoiling the joke. It may even be a little more relatable in the way that it skewers corporate stereotypes. But it’s still hilarious, and even better, hilarious in a warm and fuzzy way. It’s a season that everybody will get a kick out of, whether you’re watching for the next absurd gag or appreciating how much talent went into making this all come back together. With Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, everyone gets to relax and laugh like no other show on television.

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat premieres March 20, 2026 on Prime Video. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video.

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