10 Shows Like Jury Duty To Watch In 2023

• Rating: 7.1/10
• Genre: Documentary Comedy
• Cast Members: Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer, Janelle James, Kevin Kane, and Bridgett Everett
• Where To Watch: HBO Max, Apple Tv+

Expecting Amy is an American documentary miniseries directed by Alexander Hammer. Amy is working on a Netflix special while adjusting to her still-new marriage to chef Chris Fischer, who has autism spectrum disorder.

Amy is followed throughout her pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum, as well as the preparation of her stand-up special Amy Schumer: Growing.

It gives us glimpses of her personal life before moving on to her job, with a trembling unwillingness to stay focused on any one part for too long.

Amy Schumer is someone who can't stop working, and her work is transforming her experience into a comedy.

It is an Unfiltered three-part documentary series about a famous comic dealing with a problematic pregnancy, available in parts and pieces.

• Rating: 8.5/10
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Family, and Musical
• Cast Members: Chris Lilley, Asolima Tauati, Iro Utaifeau, Zach Fa'atoe, Maude Davey, and Ofa Palu
• Where To Watch: Amazon, Apple Tv+, Vudu

Summer Heights High is an Australian mockumentary television sitcom. The series showcases what happens at Summer Heights High School. 

The show focuses on three characters in particular who are played by the series writer and director, Chris Lilley.

One is Mr. G, an egotistical and flamboyant modern theater instructor who creates musicals like Tsunamarama and IKEA! Another character is Ja'mie King, a wealthy transfer student who wishes to assist impoverished public school pupils in any way she can.

Finally, there's Jonah Takalua, a 13-year-old Pacific Islander bully who has already been expelled from many schools and believes he's only pretending to be ignorant in the hopes that others would understand.

Mr. G creates a theatre performance based on the death of a student from a drug overdose throughout eight episodes. The show is a timeless classic comedy mini-series that was released in 2007 and has become hugely popular among audiences then and even now. 

• Rating: 8.6/10
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
• Cast Members: Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, Mark Proksch, and Kristen Schaal
• Where To Watch: Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Hotstar

What we do in the Shadows is an American mockumentary comedy horror series written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. The series is known to be one of the funniest and most engaging comedy movies of the past decade.

Waititi, Clement, and Jonathan Brugh's three lead performances go well in the film's distinctly dry tone, with all three characters bouncing off each other perfectly and allowing for plenty of hilarious interactions between the trio.

The film showcases its subjects as three extraordinarily ordinary individuals who happen to be vampires rather than the horrifying stuff of old folklore.

They deal with everyday normalcy by presenting this bizarre circumstance as the most conventional thing in the world. 

The dark comedy series has been critically acclaimed and nominated for 17 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020 and 2022.

• Rating: 8.3/10
• Genre: Comedy Documentary
• Cast Members: Kevin Eldon, Beth Cordingly, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Liz May Brice, James Holmes, Gemma Arrowsmith, Lucy Thackeray, and Thaila Zucchi.
• Where To Watch: BBC Two

The 2011 comedy series How TV Ruined Your Life is a six-episode BBC Two mini-series written and directed and portrayed by Charlie Brooker. 

In this TV series, Brooker showcases the different ways in which a TV has damaged your life by providing you with a misinterpreted view of reality.

The show itself is made up of portions from shows with commentary, weird sketches, and parodies.

Each episode focuses on a different way that television has damaged your life, such as fear, and there is a sketch showing the overrated docudrama, which has created an impact on the audience's life.

Similarly, the creator provides insights about unrealistic and unattainable goals television is providing to its consumer in a very humorous and funny way, because of which the series has reviewed mildly positive reviews with some criticism attached to it.

• Rating: 8.1/10
• Genre: Comedy Documentary
• Cast Members: Helen Mirren, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Deb Hiett, Van Epperson, and Gary Kraus
• Where To Watch: Prime Video, Netflix, Apple Tv

Documentary Now! is a famous American mockumentary television series created by Fred Armisen, Billa Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas. 

The series mocks the present documentary obsession. All the seasons contain distinct stories and aesthetic approaches that pay homage to the documentary style.

It is one of the sharpest comedies of the previous decade, a program that understands it would play best for a very small fan base and hence does not attempt hard to appeal to a larger one.

There's affection in the parody of their craft, particularly the character Varda, which plays as much like a love letter to a legend as it does a comedy. It seems like Varda would have loved it.

Altogether, Documentary Now! has three seasons, the first season received a positive response from the critics and was listed as the best TV show of 2015. The second and third seasons were also critically acclaimed by the viewers and were nominated for various awards.

• Rating: 8.0/10
• Genre: Comedy Documentary
• Cast Members: John Lurie, Willem Dafoe, Robb Webb, Dennis Hopper, Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper
• Where To Watch: Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+

Fishing with John is a cult television series that premiered in 1991 and was created, directed, and starred by actor and musician John Lurie.

The series is a six-episode long and features different guests from different locations except for episodes 5 and 6 which both feature Dennis Hopper in Thailand.

On the surface, the show appears to be a regular travel or fishing show, with Lurie taking a noteworthy guest on a fishing excursion in each episode.

Lurie's connection with his guests, his friends, is of special interest because he has no technical understanding of fishing.

Nothing out of the ordinary occurs, but the show is produced and narrated in such a way that it appears Lurie and his guest are involved in spectacular and even otherworldly adventures.

Fishing With John has received positive reviews from critics, the cinematography is great, the story is appealing and people have loved the humor the series has provided.

• Rating: 8.0/10
• Genre: Comedy Documentary, Biography
• Cast Members: Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese, Michael Alexis Palm, Spike Lee, Alec Baldwin, and Olivia Wilde
• Where To Watch: Netflix

Pretend It's a City is a 2021 American documentary series directed by Martin Scorsese which features interviews and dialogues between Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz. The series premiered on Netflix on January 8, 2021.

Pretend Its A City is a follow-up film to Public Speaking, also a Scorsese film starring Lebowitz. The episodes of the series are loosely organized around topics like money, athletics, transportation, and others.

Fran Lebowitz discusses living in New York City with her friend Scorsese. The series is distributed with various clips from archived television interviews and video footage of Lebowitz and Scorsese traveling about the city.

The fact about the documentary series is it was dedicated to Lebowitz's longtime friend Toni Morrison. The actors in the documentary, Bowen Yang and Kylee Mooney have portrayed their characters very well.

They showcased New York City in a very mesmerizing way, the audience loved the series and the creativity behind the show.

• Rating: 8.1/10
• Genre: Comedy Drama
• Cast Members: Ricky Gervais, Kerry Godliman, David Earl, Tim Barlow, and Ninette Finch
• Where To Watch: Netflix, Hulu

Derek is a British comedy-drama television series that is written by, played by, and directed by Ricky Gervais. Gervais portrays Derek Noakes, a 50-year-old care worker at Broad Hill, an elderly home where he has worked for three years. 

He enjoys watching reality television shows and game shows, as well as celebrities, YouTube, and, most importantly, chatting about animals. 

He is described as friendly, helpful, and charitable, having good intentions. He is susceptible due to his young innocence and social diversion.

Because of his social awkwardness and lack of discipline, he is criticized and rejected, as well as marginalized by mainstream culture. 

Derek believes that being nice is more essential than being bright or attractive. Some critics have labeled him as handicapped or autistic, although Ricky denies this.

The director of the mockumentary says the plot was inspired by his relatives who work in care homes, all his families are healthcare workers, some deal with learning difficulties, and some with Alzheimer's patients.

• Rating: 9/10
• Genre: Comedy
• Cast Members: Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and B. J. Novak
• Where To Watch: Peacock TV, Netflix

The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series that follows the daily lives of office employees at the fictional place of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company's Scranton, Pennsylvania, division.

During the first season of the show, it got mixed reviews, however, Steve Carell's performance, the character of the show, the material, and the structure got critical praise.

Later, the season was reviewed by various reviewers and ended up being in the best series lists, they won several awards including a Peabody Award in 2006, two Screen Actors Guild honors, a Golden Globe Award for Carell's performance, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Comedy Series.

The eighth season was criticized for a drop in quality. Many say that Carell's departure in season seven is an issue.

 The series finale received critical praise and was seen by an estimated 5.7 million people.

• Rating: 7.4/10
• Genre: Comedy
• Cast Members: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, and Pamela Anderson
• Where To Watch: HBO Max, Spectrum Tv, Prime Video, Redbox, Vudu, and Apple Tv

Borat is a Mockumentary series directed by Larry Charles in 2006 that stars the famous Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev.

The story is based on the fictional Television reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. 

It is a series about a person exploring New York City to learn about American society and culture.

Later he discovered a famous American show Baywatch and decided to go cross-country road trip to California in the hope of meeting Pamela Andeson and marrying her and taking Pamela to Kazakhstan.

Much of the film is made up of unscripted footage of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who mistake him for a foreigner with little comprehension of American culture or tradition.

Borat became a hero in his town as he was contracted by the government of Kazakhstan to travel to America to make a documentary that will bring together, hopefully, the cultures of America and Kazakstan.

The series showcases the innocence of the person American Humor, the Chaotic city, and the extraordinary lifestyle of his hometown.