I feel like it will be hard for him to discuss mental health issues related to this, I’m glad that he’s doing okay but this would definitely mess me up 😭
There’s no way they didn’t have people pass some type of psych exam before this and frame it as “oh yeah it’s just part of the process for selected jurors” before throwing some poor person on this show. I’d honestly freak if sum shi like this happened to me
Right? I keep seeing comments about how they got lucky basically that he wasn’t severely mentally ill. There’s NO way that man wasn’t given a psych evaluation. That’s a civil suit waiting to happen. Which would be wayyyyyy to ironic.
Yeah I bet there was some rubric of how likely the person is to “go along with the crowd” and not make waves (i.e. defend himself when his rights were being violated, like his right to privacy, because there were hidden cameras *in his room*)! They probably knew if they picked the right guy he’d be less likely to sue them for such a deranged human experiment. As you can probably tell by the way I’m wording this, I’d be the exact opposite of the kind of person “suited” for this social experiment because I would sue them so fast. (Even though I try to be kind to everyone I meet, and am more likely to be agreeable to avoid conflict, I also have a strong sense of a moral compass and this whole show does not pass the morality test, in my personal opinion).
@@loverrleeya they wouldve learned that about you during the extremely long interviews they do for any person on a jury ever- they wouldnt want you, don’t worry
He did have a psych eval! He mentioned it in some interview, he said he thought it was weird because there was such an extensive application process. Thank god, lol
i loved it but morally i hated it. It seems to have had no long term negative affect on him thank god but that’s a risk i don’t think the entertainment industry is well equipped to deal with usually.
In a industry with little moderation it’s hard to praise something that ‘shouldn’t work but it does’ because usually wouldn’t this inspire new pieces of work. I don’t trust corporations with this amount of responsibility on a singular person’s mental health
i’m really loving the new direction the videos are taking. nikki really is coming into her own and carving her own path on the youtube-scape. now the only thing we need is more uploads!
It makes me paranoid just watching this video, I can't imagine how paranoid he must have felt and just how badly it could've gone if they'd chosen someone with mental health issues. I really don't understand how they got it approved, seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen
@@FiregloKinda complicated and not positive about where this was set but obviously they don't check beforehand so if you get called into duty service you MIGHT be able to get out of it but you'd have to get a doctors certificate proving the mental illness is severe enough you aren't fit. There's plenty of people who would (eg. me) consider themselves fit enough for jury duty but not for being like gaslit and manipulated and isolated for a week straight on national television... like that dude seemed fairly confident and extraverted (I know that doesn't necessarily mean he has no anxiety etc. but it's def more likely) and said he spiralled pretty heavily afterwards. There's going to be plenty of people who don't count as mentally unfit for jury duty but would break under that situation
this is probably the best version of an irl truman show could be (not making fun of ronald, making everyone else the butt of the joke) but that doesn’t change how horrific of a concept this is
Growing up as a child I always thought my life was being filmed and at the end of my time in high school everyone would show me a film of every single thing I did and laugh at me. So I believed people put cameras in my bathroom, in my mirrors, and any time I was alone I believed I was being filmed. I kind of just grew out of it once I hit like 16 I stopped having those thoughts as much. But I always remember it and think it’s weird, so idk seeing the start of this video was odd to me because it kind of described this weird feeling my entire childhood held, which was my belief that everyone was lying to me and I was filmed at all times for a show or for the amusement of others. So idk how to feel but I just wanted to say I’m glad I found this video…guess I’ll look into that
As a person with Schizoaffective Disorder I don't think I'd be able to actually watch this show without having a psychotic episode. If this happened to me I'd have consequences from it for years, if not the rest of my life.
I thought Ronald was going to be sooooo mad when he found out what was going on. I really shouldn't have been so surprised that he handled it so well, considering how he handled everything else. Just a genuinely loyal, sweet dude. You can't help but love him, while also feeling weird that he's the only real person we're seeing in this show
I can personally say as a schizophrenic man who had his emergent symptoms at quite a young age- I had the “Truman delusion” before I ever knew what the internet was or had access to it- or TV! When I was young I wasn’t allowed to watch anything but animated media, and wasn’t allowed photos except specific ones from obvious, large cameras. And yet I had a delusion about being followed and documented, even broadcast. It varied from newspapers to magazines, as those were the media I most commonly interacted with. As long as media exists, the delusion of being centered in it exists.
I’m so happy he seems well. Even being so positive, hearing him say even afterwards he needed reassurance that it wasn’t continuing. im sure its instilled some trust issues, especially as someone so kind and ready to care for others. im glad he was compensated fairly, but i hope he gets therapy.
He’s tall and attractive, why wouldn’t he accept a ruse that makes him look good in more ways than one..why wouldn’t he be pleasant when the world has been pleasant to him?
i would just like to add that Yut is in fact not a fictional board game! they definitely weren't playing it right, but it is a legitimate game!! however, no matter how many times i've seen people play it, i still don't know what the rules are so who tf am i to really say 🤷♀
Very strange idea...On the other hand, this video is really well done Nikki. Sound, editing, lighting, transitions, the cat emergence twist ending...you've got some real talent showing here!
I thought the jorf shirts were made intentionally but jaquis didn’t know what jorf was and accidentally was going to release a line of products under the name jorf sorta like goop. So to cover up her tracks she was gonna sue the guy.
You need to watch the Push. It’s a social experiment that a psychologist put together over the course of a night to see how much “hypothetically” it would take to get a random person to commit murder via pushing them off a building and what the actors and psychologists did to attempt to get the one person out of the loop to do it. It’s a very similar to this and very fascinating to watch how easily human beings can be manipulated.
It's a Derren brown experiment which is kind of his thing he's done multiple where he tries to see what people can be subconsciously pushed to do, they are somewhat creepy but interesting
As someone who has the Truman show delusions this show freaked me OUTTT. I watched it with my mom and I think it triggered an episode because of just how traumatizing the whole idea is.
I feel like this concept just so so greatly depends on the person you happen to choose, considering there is no way for them to actively consent to it or reject it. I think they got very lucky with Ronald, a kind-hearted and mentally well person who seems to be okay with this entire thing. It's a risk for sure, and this time it happened to end well, but by god I hope this NEVER happens again.
hi Nikki!! the editing was absolutely phenomenal on this video, i enjoyed it so much & feel like i haven’t seen something like this before in any commentary youtube video i’ve ever watched! thank you for being amazing out here 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
I’m not the most mentally stable person out there but me personally?? I would LOVE this. Lmaooo like I love chaos and just doing stuff out of the norm, meeting interesting ppl etc. I feel like it would be such a great funny little story to have.
Bruh being on that show would literally break me… like how is that legal? As someone who does struggle with paranoia even just the sheer existence of that show makes me scared
This video mixed with clips from the Truman Show is genuinely a masterpiece. 26:00 really got me lol this shit is crazy, how will they even be able to make more episodes?
I think the normalization of reality tv does a disservice to a lot of people who value privacy and control over their own life. When anybody can find your social media no matter how many steps you take to stay private and gossip about you that ends up hurting you. These shows encourage us to be trashy and chaotic and downright cruel to each other. Prank shows and reality tv are a depressing side effect of corporate greed and a disregard for artistic merit and good writers. Soon we'll just have ai reality tv.
Idk if you've heard about The Joe Schmo Show, but it's exactly what you thought this show would be: a massive prank at the "Joe Schmo's" expense. Matt (the Joe Schmo) thought he was on a typical reality show called the "Lap of Luxury" and that he was genuinely competing with the other "contestants," but they were all actors. And unlike Jury Duty, their goal WAS to make fun of Matt and put him in embarrassing situations. They literally made him have a breakdown mid-season, which led to them finally realizing that he was a real person with feelings, and it was shitty to mess with him like that. Did they end the show, admit everything, and call it off? Of course not! They just switched to treating him like the protagonist instead of making a joke out of him. AND THEN THEY MADE TWO MORE SEASONS. They just changed the fake show every season, so no one could tie it back to any previous ones. Season 2 was a dating show that had TWO fake contestants (a man and a woman). Season 3 was a phony bounty hunter show. I've seen some people talking about the first season, but I didn't learn they made two more seasons until I looked up the show. It's wild. I mean, for Pete's sake, it was Kristin Wiig's screen debut. What more can you want from an ethically dubious fake reality show prank?
My mom was telling me about how funny this show was and I was absolutely enraged and terrified at the concept. As someone with a history of being gaslit this sounds like my worst fucking nightmare and I would be beyond enraged if I was this guy. Looking forward to watching your analysis here.
How did they even keep him from finding out. Did they forge a jury summons and send it to him in the mail? Did they rent out a court room? How did they manage to deceive him like this?
I’m so happy to see this. I thought the show was so funny until I started to put myself in Ronald’s shoes. Like not just the paranoia of being constantly followed by cameras, but also, imagining building these bonds/relationships with the other ‘jurors’ only to find out they were completely fake. You invested your time and emotions into these people who weren’t even real; their names (sans James Marsden) aren’t even what you thought they were -the character they stepped into does not exist. That could really feel like a betrayal and change how you approach people in the future.
OMG this is exactly what I thought. I hoped they would never let him find out because these were relationships for life, or at least nostalgic if it was real. I would have cried, even after the $100,000.
this video was truly beautifully made, the clips from the movie so gently placed throughout and your compassion really made the whole thing come together beautifully i think !!
I feel like this show embodies the capability of cruelness and kindness humans have On one side you have the compassion and love Ronald shows for the others just because they exist And on the other you see the manipulative and horrifying way that the people who created Jury Duty trapped Ronald in an un escapable hell of paranoia A paranoia he will most likely always have lingering on him For the sake of showing human kindness and hope they tortured the person who choose to be kind
They somehow found the perfect person to run this thing on, and it absolutely was HILARIOUS. Todd's chair pants made me laugh harder than I have in so long. Then the girl who kept trying to seduce the mormon kid....JAMES MARSDEN aka Caleb....it was all so funny.
This is such a great video!! Big agree with @herodoesstuff about the editing and Truman Show references, it's so well executed and the ending shot with multiple cameras felt connected to that blueprint/topdown map of the courthouse the video keeps cutting back to. At first I thought that was a schematic of a set the character Truman would walk around in in the in-universe Truman Show, but later in the video I realised it was from this actually-produced-irl court show and that sent a chill down my spine.
I liked how Marsden said that it was important that Gladden was never going to be allowed to be the joke in the show, and if you watch, it holds up it’s always laughing with him, not at him, which I think is important and makes the show much more acceptable. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be surprised if others tried a similar show type, missing the point and used it to make fun of an unsuspecting person, which could be detrimental.
gosh there is some real artistry in the way you edit your videos. the sections where you seamlessly compared jury duty to the truman show were so evocative and engaging
After I got called for jury duty, one of the streaming services imimmediately recommended this to me. After I got over the creepiness of that I decided to watch, but was disappointed to find out it wasn't the Paulie Shore movie.
A another show that gives me turman vibes is the rehearsal by Nathan fielder. He’s also done Nathan for you which is a similar thing and actually ends in a way that would be foreshadowing for the rehearsal. The point of the rehearsal is the idea of trying to stage out events with actors and full on sets and locations opened to be convincing. It starts with a guy practicing how to tell his friend he’s lied about a job he had for years and, he had the bar remade to every detail and hired an actress to play his friend he would tell this secret to. She’s told to talk to her on a set up he did to play her better, the main thing being this guy loves trivia games so they put one in at this real bar and have him purposefully ruining into what would end up being the answers and he’s upset because he was never told that would be apart of it and he didn’t want others to see him as a cheater, this leads into the main part a women who wants kids, so they play this out same type of deal but it actually gets serious very quickly not only does she come at Nathan for religious beliefs he’s teaching “their kid” to a whole fake OD and d3ath of this fake kid character after she talks about her struggles with addiction in relation with her relationship with her father. He ends up hiring a new kid so they basically start over throughout all of this they are pretending to plant food and such, mirrors that only show them aged to the appropriate time passed in this act. We end up learning this kid gets attached to Nathan and calls him dad after the fact. I’m not even explaining it in a way that does it justice it’s the most wild ride you will ever take.
There’s a movie called Windy City Heat, I think what happened to Ronald was slightly more similar to that than the Truman Show, except instead of ruining someone’s life with a prank that would never end, Jury Duty tests peoples morality which is cool. It’s still a total mind fuck but it isn’t as messed up as Truman Show and Windy City Heat. Windy City Heat is free to watch on UA-cam, it’s crass and trashy but entertaining in a messed up way. I highly recommend
Every now and then I'll contemplate whether I'm in the Truman show, and then I'll notice that people don't get out of my way when I am doing my runs around the nearby park, and I've realized that if I wasn't The Truman Show they would totally get out of my way, so that tells me I'm not and everything is safe and I'm good.
27:18 is probably the realest thing said in this whole video. The udder thought into constructing this argument is just so amazing. They practically took the words out of my mouth for this topic. I cannot imagine the intelligence needed to be able to explain this in such a way.
i’m confused how this was legal. i’m assuming since he was a good sport and accepted the reward, he likely signed something to not come for them for false imprisonment? seems so risky
Okay how dare you make me realize that James Marsden looks like Jerma, now I can't stop seeing it. (lighthearted) (but also genuinely wtf) (wtf as in how did i not notice it earlier)
There were a couple of series created by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (writers of both Zombieland movies and all 3 Deadpool movies) that were on about 20 years ago. Now I feel old. 'The Joe Schmo Show' is closest to 'Jury Duty'. It's kind of like 'The Real World'. A bunch of people live in a house and each week someone gets voted out. Originally the show was supposed to make fun of the one real guy but he got close to one of the actors and when they were "voted out" he came close to leaving the show because he was so upset so they had to change things up when they realised, far later than they should have, that the audience would side with the guy being manipulated for entertainment. He won himself $100,000 and some other prizes. They did two other seasons. One based on The Bachelor and one based on Dog The Bounty Hunter but living in Australia those were never shown here. The second series is called 'Invasion Iowa'. William Shatner and a few actors/comedians descend on the town of Riverside, Iowa (in Star Trek this is the town where James T Kirk is born and that's what the place is known for) to film a movie that isn't real. One of the comedians is an early role for Desi Lydic now on The Daily Show. This should have poked fun at Hollywood yet despite being filmed 2 years after the first season of The Joe Schmo Show they went in wanting to make fun of the townsfolk and once again they had to pivot because they realised way too late that doing so may upset their audience. The people in town all get gifts and the town gets some more clout from William Shatner. Both series would have worked better had they started out not making fun of their unwitting participants but I did enjoy them when they were on. Though I was in my teens and far less discerning. If they'd hold up today I have no idea.
“The premise is bat shit crazy and honestly something only a manic person would think about at 3 AM when they’re full of ideas” *looks at the time* fuck she’s talking about me did i HAVE to choose to watch this now 7 months late 😭😭
I can't remember the UA-camr but I've watched them react to this show before, and I weirdly enjoyed it. Had some back and forth feelings about it. But what you said in the beginning about the psychological condition about people feeling like they're being watched really got to me. I have voiced before that I feel like I consciously make myself feel like I'm being watched or recorded (I know it's in my head and I'm not actually being watched ahha) but a lot of the times it's while I'm working for someone. I kinda like it cause I feel like it helps me be a better person/worker. I've always been a bad liar, guilt eats me alive. So maybe that has something to do with it...? Hmm ...I never really thought about it being a condition ...but makes me think more ...
09:58 'He has nothing but positive things to say about him.' Yeah, that definitely gets my respect too: the other guy can easily become the slapstick character, which only shows wat a good person Ronal is by doing the complete opposite.
See I legit thought that sequestering was how all jury duty happened, and I live alone with my cat and like I can't let my cat starve to death so like when I received during summons I just ignored them because like it's my cat's life on the line you know? I've never heard of the show but I found your channel recently and I've been watching a bunch of stuff on it
this is my first time seeing a video from you and it was really nice. consice, entertaining, and the way you edited and drew ties to the truman show made it ultimately profound.
Very well done video essay! Also when that closet door opened i thought you had somebody going along for a bit about the Truman Show…but it was just your cat 😅
im on the verge of tears him showing the nervous inventor guy the movie bugs life is literally so sweet
So wholesome fr 😭
Actually crying right now
@@nikkicarreon you should do Joe schmo, it's like Truman Show too but way worse
IM SO GLAD I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO FOUND THIS TERRIFYING im so unbeliably glad hes mentally stable I feel so so so so so so so bad for him
I feel like it will be hard for him to discuss mental health issues related to this, I’m glad that he’s doing okay but this would definitely mess me up 😭
Right after the show he had a mental breakdown because he was scared the cameras were still following him
@@DDfoofa4011really?? Where did you hear that?
@@livvlife i heard somewhere he was a guest on an interview or podcast (forgot the name) so probably there
@@nikkicarreon I'm sorry for showing inappropriate comment I'm so sorry for real my bad
There’s no way they didn’t have people pass some type of psych exam before this and frame it as “oh yeah it’s just part of the process for selected jurors” before throwing some poor person on this show. I’d honestly freak if sum shi like this happened to me
Right? I keep seeing comments about how they got lucky basically that he wasn’t severely mentally ill. There’s NO way that man wasn’t given a psych evaluation. That’s a civil suit waiting to happen. Which would be wayyyyyy to ironic.
Yeah I bet there was some rubric of how likely the person is to “go along with the crowd” and not make waves (i.e. defend himself when his rights were being violated, like his right to privacy, because there were hidden cameras *in his room*)! They probably knew if they picked the right guy he’d be less likely to sue them for such a deranged human experiment. As you can probably tell by the way I’m wording this, I’d be the exact opposite of the kind of person “suited” for this social experiment because I would sue them so fast. (Even though I try to be kind to everyone I meet, and am more likely to be agreeable to avoid conflict, I also have a strong sense of a moral compass and this whole show does not pass the morality test, in my personal opinion).
@@loverrleeya they wouldve learned that about you during the extremely long interviews they do for any person on a jury ever- they wouldnt want you, don’t worry
He did have a psych eval! He mentioned it in some interview, he said he thought it was weird because there was such an extensive application process. Thank god, lol
insanity aside "if your mom sells a beanie baby, i will be mad at you, ken" is such a good line 😭 need to see this show as a whole i think
HAHAHA no seriously “the princess diana” HAHA
I just got done watching it and I liked it Ronald was such a nice guy
😂❤
and if you know korean people they get so pissed off at you if you try to pay for them in certain situations LMAO
The way you transitioned from bits of the Truman show to jury duty and the way you ended this video was done so poetically. Well done.
Thank u sooo much :)
This is a genuinely terrifying concept oml
Ronald gave me hope for humanity. What a pure soul.
Also, you remind me of the receptionist from the Dr. Katz cartoon.
i loved it but morally i hated it. It seems to have had no long term negative affect on him thank god but that’s a risk i don’t think the entertainment industry is well equipped to deal with usually.
If we popularize Truman type shows it’s bound some company messes up and harms someone.
In a industry with little moderation it’s hard to praise something that ‘shouldn’t work but it does’ because usually wouldn’t this inspire new pieces of work. I don’t trust corporations with this amount of responsibility on a singular person’s mental health
apparently for a couple weeks after the show he was really paranoid and would constantly ask his friend from the show if the show was actually over
i’m really loving the new direction the videos are taking. nikki really is coming into her own and carving her own path on the youtube-scape. now the only thing we need is more uploads!
:,) wow thank you that really means a lot, I feel like I’m finding myself/the style of content I want to make recently too, I’m happy you like it
It makes me paranoid just watching this video, I can't imagine how paranoid he must have felt and just how badly it could've gone if they'd chosen someone with mental health issues. I really don't understand how they got it approved, seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen
i feel like thats def one of the things they would need to check for before putting on one of these shows
Aren't people with mental health issues exempt from jury duty anyway?
@@Fireglo lmao no, I did jury duty and I have a mental illness
@@Breathefreemylove you did jury duty or you merely showed up for selection?
@@FiregloKinda complicated and not positive about where this was set but obviously they don't check beforehand so if you get called into duty service you MIGHT be able to get out of it but you'd have to get a doctors certificate proving the mental illness is severe enough you aren't fit. There's plenty of people who would (eg. me) consider themselves fit enough for jury duty but not for being like gaslit and manipulated and isolated for a week straight on national television... like that dude seemed fairly confident and extraverted (I know that doesn't necessarily mean he has no anxiety etc. but it's def more likely) and said he spiralled pretty heavily afterwards. There's going to be plenty of people who don't count as mentally unfit for jury duty but would break under that situation
this is probably the best version of an irl truman show could be (not making fun of ronald, making everyone else the butt of the joke) but that doesn’t change how horrific of a concept this is
Growing up as a child I always thought my life was being filmed and at the end of my time in high school everyone would show me a film of every single thing I did and laugh at me. So I believed people put cameras in my bathroom, in my mirrors, and any time I was alone I believed I was being filmed. I kind of just grew out of it once I hit like 16 I stopped having those thoughts as much. But I always remember it and think it’s weird, so idk seeing the start of this video was odd to me because it kind of described this weird feeling my entire childhood held, which was my belief that everyone was lying to me and I was filmed at all times for a show or for the amusement of others. So idk how to feel but I just wanted to say I’m glad I found this video…guess I’ll look into that
Do you have OCD?
I’m 29 years old.
I used to think something similar to this.
As a person with Schizoaffective Disorder I don't think I'd be able to actually watch this show without having a psychotic episode. If this happened to me I'd have consequences from it for years, if not the rest of my life.
I thought Ronald was going to be sooooo mad when he found out what was going on. I really shouldn't have been so surprised that he handled it so well, considering how he handled everything else. Just a genuinely loyal, sweet dude. You can't help but love him, while also feeling weird that he's the only real person we're seeing in this show
I can personally say as a schizophrenic man who had his emergent symptoms at quite a young age- I had the “Truman delusion” before I ever knew what the internet was or had access to it- or TV! When I was young I wasn’t allowed to watch anything but animated media, and wasn’t allowed photos except specific ones from obvious, large cameras. And yet I had a delusion about being followed and documented, even broadcast. It varied from newspapers to magazines, as those were the media I most commonly interacted with. As long as media exists, the delusion of being centered in it exists.
I’m so happy he seems well. Even being so positive, hearing him say even afterwards he needed reassurance that it wasn’t continuing. im sure its instilled some trust issues, especially as someone so kind and ready to care for others. im glad he was compensated fairly, but i hope he gets therapy.
He’s tall and attractive, why wouldn’t he accept a ruse that makes him look good in more ways than one..why wouldn’t he be pleasant when the world has been pleasant to him?
He literally handled this so well omg. I would've died dead right there
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i would just like to add that Yut is in fact not a fictional board game! they definitely weren't playing it right, but it is a legitimate game!! however, no matter how many times i've seen people play it, i still don't know what the rules are so who tf am i to really say 🤷♀
Omg another Omega X fan! Didn't expect to see for x in a Nikki comment section
same I've watched yut played multiple times and the rules are lost on me every time lol
i dont think ill ever understand yut 😭 every time i see someone play it i feel like i black out for the entire game
Very strange idea...On the other hand, this video is really well done Nikki. Sound, editing, lighting, transitions, the cat emergence twist ending...you've got some real talent showing here!
Thank you :,) I’m so glad you liked it
Reality TV is so scary
Lowkey I’m way too paranoid to entertain being on one fr
I thought the jorf shirts were made intentionally but jaquis didn’t know what jorf was and accidentally was going to release a line of products under the name jorf sorta like goop. So to cover up her tracks she was gonna sue the guy.
You need to watch the Push. It’s a social experiment that a psychologist put together over the course of a night to see how much “hypothetically” it would take to get a random person to commit murder via pushing them off a building and what the actors and psychologists did to attempt to get the one person out of the loop to do it. It’s a very similar to this and very fascinating to watch how easily human beings can be manipulated.
It's a Derren brown experiment which is kind of his thing he's done multiple where he tries to see what people can be subconsciously pushed to do, they are somewhat creepy but interesting
Huuuuuuge thumbs up for that hotdog joke. It didn't make me laugh a lot but its good enough to be worthy of praise.
Thank you, it’s nice to get that hot dog praise 🤓
As someone who has the Truman show delusions this show freaked me OUTTT. I watched it with my mom and I think it triggered an episode because of just how traumatizing the whole idea is.
I feel like this concept just so so greatly depends on the person you happen to choose, considering there is no way for them to actively consent to it or reject it. I think they got very lucky with Ronald, a kind-hearted and mentally well person who seems to be okay with this entire thing. It's a risk for sure, and this time it happened to end well, but by god I hope this NEVER happens again.
i love ur editing throughout the video, with the references to truman show- especially at the end! very creative and wraps the video up well :)
hi Nikki!! the editing was absolutely phenomenal on this video, i enjoyed it so much & feel like i haven’t seen something like this before in any commentary youtube video i’ve ever watched! thank you for being amazing out here 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
Wow thank you 😭 that encourages me a lot, I was worried people wouldn’t like it if I got experimental
@@Edwin_Daniels I almost said some hateful things to you... have a terrible day
I’m not the most mentally stable person out there but me personally?? I would LOVE this. Lmaooo like I love chaos and just doing stuff out of the norm, meeting interesting ppl etc. I feel like it would be such a great funny little story to have.
If you think about it, they put private cameras in a lot of devices now
Bruh being on that show would literally break me… like how is that legal?
As someone who does struggle with paranoia even just the sheer existence of that show makes me scared
This video mixed with clips from the Truman Show is genuinely a masterpiece. 26:00 really got me lol this shit is crazy, how will they even be able to make more episodes?
I think the normalization of reality tv does a disservice to a lot of people who value privacy and control over their own life. When anybody can find your social media no matter how many steps you take to stay private and gossip about you that ends up hurting you. These shows encourage us to be trashy and chaotic and downright cruel to each other. Prank shows and reality tv are a depressing side effect of corporate greed and a disregard for artistic merit and good writers. Soon we'll just have ai reality tv.
him talking about todd makes me cry so badly bro. never thought i'd be ugly crying for a guy talking about a bugs life
Idk if you've heard about The Joe Schmo Show, but it's exactly what you thought this show would be: a massive prank at the "Joe Schmo's" expense. Matt (the Joe Schmo) thought he was on a typical reality show called the "Lap of Luxury" and that he was genuinely competing with the other "contestants," but they were all actors. And unlike Jury Duty, their goal WAS to make fun of Matt and put him in embarrassing situations. They literally made him have a breakdown mid-season, which led to them finally realizing that he was a real person with feelings, and it was shitty to mess with him like that. Did they end the show, admit everything, and call it off? Of course not! They just switched to treating him like the protagonist instead of making a joke out of him. AND THEN THEY MADE TWO MORE SEASONS. They just changed the fake show every season, so no one could tie it back to any previous ones. Season 2 was a dating show that had TWO fake contestants (a man and a woman). Season 3 was a phony bounty hunter show. I've seen some people talking about the first season, but I didn't learn they made two more seasons until I looked up the show. It's wild. I mean, for Pete's sake, it was Kristin Wiig's screen debut. What more can you want from an ethically dubious fake reality show prank?
I really liked the show because for the most part it was very wholesome in the interactions which i think is partially why he took it so well lol
My mom was telling me about how funny this show was and I was absolutely enraged and terrified at the concept. As someone with a history of being gaslit this sounds like my worst fucking nightmare and I would be beyond enraged if I was this guy. Looking forward to watching your analysis here.
How did they even keep him from finding out. Did they forge a jury summons and send it to him in the mail? Did they rent out a court room? How did they manage to deceive him like this?
Ronald seems like such a genuinely good person it makes me sick
I’m so happy to see this. I thought the show was so funny until I started to put myself in Ronald’s shoes. Like not just the paranoia of being constantly followed by cameras, but also, imagining building these bonds/relationships with the other ‘jurors’ only to find out they were completely fake. You invested your time and emotions into these people who weren’t even real; their names (sans James Marsden) aren’t even what you thought they were -the character they stepped into does not exist. That could really feel like a betrayal and change how you approach people in the future.
OMG this is exactly what I thought. I hoped they would never let him find out because these were relationships for life, or at least nostalgic if it was real. I would have cried, even after the $100,000.
The show was very fun, however at the end, all I could think about is how terrified it would be for this to happen to me.
this video was truly beautifully made, the clips from the movie so gently placed throughout and your compassion really made the whole thing come together beautifully i think !!
I’ve watched this show, it’s a literal brain aneurysm.
As someone who deals with paranoia this is quite literally my worst nightmare.
that moment at 27:00 i thought for real the guy was going to pop out of your closet
I WISH, I dmed him but he didn’t answer 😔
I feel like this show embodies the capability of cruelness and kindness humans have
On one side you have the compassion and love Ronald shows for the others just because they exist
And on the other you see the manipulative and horrifying way that the people who created Jury Duty trapped Ronald in an un escapable hell of paranoia
A paranoia he will most likely always have lingering on him
For the sake of showing human kindness and hope they tortured the person who choose to be kind
nobody talks about 27 dresses when talking about james marsden performaces but my god that is one of my favorite movies ever
FINALLY SOMEONE IS TALKING ABT THIS SHOW ITS SO GOOD
They somehow found the perfect person to run this thing on, and it absolutely was HILARIOUS. Todd's chair pants made me laugh harder than I have in so long. Then the girl who kept trying to seduce the mormon kid....JAMES MARSDEN aka Caleb....it was all so funny.
I could not believe how amazing these actors and actresses were at improv and just not laughing holy sht
THEY TRUMANED HIM!! they got him with the good morning good evening good night that's terrifying
This is such a great video!! Big agree with @herodoesstuff about the editing and Truman Show references, it's so well executed and the ending shot with multiple cameras felt connected to that blueprint/topdown map of the courthouse the video keeps cutting back to. At first I thought that was a schematic of a set the character Truman would walk around in in the in-universe Truman Show, but later in the video I realised it was from this actually-produced-irl court show and that sent a chill down my spine.
Thank you!! You saw the vision, I appreciate that sm :) glad you liked it
Ok last comment but i love the editing wasn’t expecting anything cinematic from a commentary video i love it it looks like someone’s pinterest
Thank u I lowkey was inspired by Don Hertzfeldt when I edited this
the fact that he was even willing to help noah soak shows how real he is 😂😂
I liked how Marsden said that it was important that Gladden was never going to be allowed to be the joke in the show, and if you watch, it holds up it’s always laughing with him, not at him, which I think is important and makes the show much more acceptable.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be surprised if others tried a similar show type, missing the point and used it to make fun of an unsuspecting person, which could be detrimental.
dude the Bugs Life part probably would have made me cry if I saw this show, thats so cute of him to show Todd that movie ❤
gosh there is some real artistry in the way you edit your videos. the sections where you seamlessly compared jury duty to the truman show were so evocative and engaging
When that door opened I swear I thought Ronald was about to come in the room💀💀💀
My mother in law suggested this to us, haven't watched it yet but definitely more intrigued now.
I recommend! It’s definitely funny and unique despite the existential crisis of episode 8
@@nikkicarreon ha, dude seems like a genuine human
10:36 creep by radiohead started playing in my head
Im a crep 😢 im a weirdoooh 😔💔
It's always a lovely surprise whenever Nikki uploads!!
:D thank you, I’m trying to be more frequent!
This proves it! Everyone is watching me, I'm not paranoid!
this looks like if a Danganronpa game had a normal person sprinkled in
I FEEL SO BADFOR HIM TBH HES SO NICE TOO 💀💀💀
After I got called for jury duty, one of the streaming services imimmediately recommended this to me.
After I got over the creepiness of that I decided to watch, but was disappointed to find out it wasn't the Paulie Shore movie.
I don’t think I would have been able to pass the tests, so omg props to ronald 😭😭😭
nikkie the amount of effort you put into your videos is phenomenal. and they’re consistently so funny too omg 😭🫶 I LOVE YOUU
A another show that gives me turman vibes is the rehearsal by Nathan fielder. He’s also done Nathan for you which is a similar thing and actually ends in a way that would be foreshadowing for the rehearsal. The point of the rehearsal is the idea of trying to stage out events with actors and full on sets and locations opened to be convincing. It starts with a guy practicing how to tell his friend he’s lied about a job he had for years and, he had the bar remade to every detail and hired an actress to play his friend he would tell this secret to. She’s told to talk to her on a set up he did to play her better, the main thing being this guy loves trivia games so they put one in at this real bar and have him purposefully ruining into what would end up being the answers and he’s upset because he was never told that would be apart of it and he didn’t want others to see him as a cheater, this leads into the main part a women who wants kids, so they play this out same type of deal but it actually gets serious very quickly not only does she come at Nathan for religious beliefs he’s teaching “their kid” to a whole fake OD and d3ath of this fake kid character after she talks about her struggles with addiction in relation with her relationship with her father. He ends up hiring a new kid so they basically start over throughout all of this they are pretending to plant food and such, mirrors that only show them aged to the appropriate time passed in this act. We end up learning this kid gets attached to Nathan and calls him dad after the fact. I’m not even explaining it in a way that does it justice it’s the most wild ride you will ever take.
Hey Nkki this video is very good, it's about a very interesting topic. I love every minute of this! We shall all go bowling soon cousin!
Is basically a real life RPG with NPC guiding the quest and all lol
best James Marsden role since Hop (2011) 🧡
oh. my. god. I would never recover from this...
this youtube video was so well made wtf
you are awesome, keep it up!
love from Greece
There’s a movie called Windy City Heat, I think what happened to Ronald was slightly more similar to that than the Truman Show, except instead of ruining someone’s life with a prank that would never end, Jury Duty tests peoples morality which is cool. It’s still a total mind fuck but it isn’t as messed up as Truman Show and Windy City Heat.
Windy City Heat is free to watch on UA-cam, it’s crass and trashy but entertaining in a messed up way. I highly recommend
Every now and then I'll contemplate whether I'm in the Truman show, and then I'll notice that people don't get out of my way when I am doing my runs around the nearby park, and I've realized that if I wasn't The Truman Show they would totally get out of my way, so that tells me I'm not and everything is safe and I'm good.
27:18 is probably the realest thing said in this whole video. The udder thought into constructing this argument is just so amazing. They practically took the words out of my mouth for this topic. I cannot imagine the intelligence needed to be able to explain this in such a way.
When the cat opened the door I swore that Ronald would come out of that door 😭😭
The wai ik i have watched all the movies you mentioned as a kid but all i can remember from them is that they where rly unsettling
this is such a beautifully done video. the editing is so amazing
your cat just about to wander back into your closet at the end is grade A comedy
i loved the show but somehow never thought about the psychological aspect of it💀
23:55 the audio only is in one ear here for me, anybody else felt this?
i’m confused how this was legal. i’m assuming since he was a good sport and accepted the reward, he likely signed something to not come for them for false imprisonment? seems so risky
Okay how dare you make me realize that James Marsden looks like Jerma, now I can't stop seeing it. (lighthearted) (but also genuinely wtf) (wtf as in how did i not notice it earlier)
I wanna watch that BUT THE MC IS ADORABLE
love that you were serving face near the ned
There were a couple of series created by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (writers of both Zombieland movies and all 3 Deadpool movies) that were on about 20 years ago. Now I feel old. 'The Joe Schmo Show' is closest to 'Jury Duty'. It's kind of like 'The Real World'. A bunch of people live in a house and each week someone gets voted out. Originally the show was supposed to make fun of the one real guy but he got close to one of the actors and when they were "voted out" he came close to leaving the show because he was so upset so they had to change things up when they realised, far later than they should have, that the audience would side with the guy being manipulated for entertainment. He won himself $100,000 and some other prizes. They did two other seasons. One based on The Bachelor and one based on Dog The Bounty Hunter but living in Australia those were never shown here.
The second series is called 'Invasion Iowa'. William Shatner and a few actors/comedians descend on the town of Riverside, Iowa (in Star Trek this is the town where James T Kirk is born and that's what the place is known for) to film a movie that isn't real. One of the comedians is an early role for Desi Lydic now on The Daily Show. This should have poked fun at Hollywood yet despite being filmed 2 years after the first season of The Joe Schmo Show they went in wanting to make fun of the townsfolk and once again they had to pivot because they realised way too late that doing so may upset their audience. The people in town all get gifts and the town gets some more clout from William Shatner. Both series would have worked better had they started out not making fun of their unwitting participants but I did enjoy them when they were on. Though I was in my teens and far less discerning. If they'd hold up today I have no idea.
THATS SO GOOD!!!! You’re really talented!:D
“The premise is bat shit crazy and honestly something only a manic person would think about at 3 AM when they’re full of ideas” *looks at the time* fuck she’s talking about me did i HAVE to choose to watch this now 7 months late 😭😭
Everytime I watch any of your videos you talk about cults and I love it
In this economy 100.000$ is not nearly enough to make up for two and a half weeks of psychological torture
Surpise kitty appearance made me have to subscribe 🥰. He walked in like he owns the place 😂
I can't remember the UA-camr but I've watched them react to this show before, and I weirdly enjoyed it. Had some back and forth feelings about it.
But what you said in the beginning about the psychological condition about people feeling like they're being watched really got to me. I have voiced before that I feel like I consciously make myself feel like I'm being watched or recorded (I know it's in my head and I'm not actually being watched ahha) but a lot of the times it's while I'm working for someone. I kinda like it cause I feel like it helps me be a better person/worker. I've always been a bad liar, guilt eats me alive. So maybe that has something to do with it...?
Hmm ...I never really thought about it being a condition ...but makes me think more ...
When Nikki said she knows a thing or two about cults i thought she was gonna pull a Stan marsh and say she was the leader of one 😭
It's so odd that I can't even comprehend a problem with this or the potential harm
I liked it, I feel like they could do it over one day instead of a whole month 😅 I think that would be less threatening to participants mental health.
09:58 'He has nothing but positive things to say about him.'
Yeah, that definitely gets my respect too: the other guy can easily become the slapstick character, which only shows wat a good person Ronal is by doing the complete opposite.
See I legit thought that sequestering was how all jury duty happened, and I live alone with my cat and like I can't let my cat starve to death so like when I received during summons I just ignored them because like it's my cat's life on the line you know?
I've never heard of the show but I found your channel recently and I've been watching a bunch of stuff on it
this is my first time seeing a video from you and it was really nice. consice, entertaining, and the way you edited and drew ties to the truman show made it ultimately profound.
Very well done video essay! Also when that closet door opened i thought you had somebody going along for a bit about the Truman Show…but it was just your cat 😅