Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

Matt Roush says...

“You couldn’t even make this up for a TV show,” blurts temp worker Anthony Norman, the 25-year-old dupe at the center of an elaborate hoax in which he’s the only one not in on the joke. As in the Peabody-winning Jury Duty, everyone but Anthony is an actor playing to a script, pretending to be employees of the fictional Rockin’ Grandma’s Hot Sauce family-owned company, whose founder and CEO is about to step down. The genial Anthony is hired as a temp assistant to help out at the annual company offsite retreat, staged at a resort where goofy team-building exercises and bizarre seminars add to the absurdity when it becomes clear that the heir apparent is an unqualified doofus. Anthony accepts the mock documentary cameras following the action, but even after things start going off the rails, he insists, “Honestly, this is so authentic and real, like nobody could sit down and write a script like this.” Poor Anthony. If he only knew — and we can’t wait for him to find out. Launches with three episodes, with five more over the next two Fridays.

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