Is the Jury Duty Show Similar to Jim Carrey-starring The Truman Show?

According to Ronald Gladden, he got 'Truman Showed in real-life.' And he's not wrong. For the duration of his time on Amazon Freevee's Jury Duty, the entire world he was living in was fake. It was all mocked up for the show, with actors playing the eclectic group of people he found himself isolated with following the sequestration.

Some Redditors, though, don't see Jury Duty as massively different from many other reality shows. One wrote, 'In the Truman Show, Truman had no idea he was on a reality tv show. In Jury Duty, Ronald signed a contract to be on a reality tv show.'

They went on to say that 'every reality show deceives the participants' as 'since the inception [reality TV has] been about creating a story from often deceptively edited snippets of people interacting, including snippets that were created by the producers with deception.'

It's certainly true that reality TV is heavily edited and what viewers see is determined by the producers of each show. And this puts huge power in the hands of those producers.

There is also little doubt that there are major similarities between what The Truman Show portrayed and what Jury Duty was. The biggest difference, however, is that the Jim Carrey movie saw the creators attempt to hide the truth from its titular character, and it was slip-ups that made him begin to question the world around him.

With each new and implausible obstacle that was put in his way, the chances of him catching on became ever greater.

Of course, the same could be said of Ronald Gladden. But the implausible scenarios he was presented with were more for the benefit of viewers. Had he simply gone through the show sitting on a standard jury surrounded by average people, well the show wouldn't have existed. By coming up with ever more ludicrous ideas for Ronald to get on board with, Jury Duty made him question things in a way that Truman Burbank was never supposed to.

And, without him knowing it, it also presented him as a wholesome, down-to-earth man with a good heart.

Of course, the basic idea of a show that has one unsuspecting protagonist living in a fictional world is something the two share. And the debate over whether Jury Duty is something of a real-life Truman Show really rests on how the man at the centre of it feels. And he thinks it was.

Source: Reddit.