If they’d done that, people would be saying, “What? Another cop, PI, or spy show? Can’t the networks think of anything ORIGINAL for a change?” You gotta give some points for trying something new, even if it flops.
That’s why I watched the first episode: because you hardly ever see anything about jury selection in any of the other TV shows. (Law & Order: Trial By Jury did a little of it.)
If this show had been about thoughtful jury selection and the episode ended as the trail was beginning, it would have been better. As it was, there was too much hokum, too much Star-Trek-11th-hour-let’s-poke-a-bunch-of-stuff-on-the-screen-and-presto!-the-transporter-is-now-fixed-never-mind-how-we’re-just-geniuses.
The promo I just saw for it said it’s a “New Hit Series!”
The tag line for the official page on Facebook is “He’ll Get You Off”. I refuse to believe that was accidental. Far more likely to be grasping way too hard to sound “edgy” with the double entendre.
I’ve seen this for series that haven’t even premiered. They’ve done this for decades.
That does it! :mad: From now on, I’m going to prefix all my posts with
[ACHTUNG: SARCASM!]
That is a huge success.
But the real question is, how many people will come back for the second episode? Or maybe, this is what the people want.
Which is even more ridiculous. Sure Perry Mason made it a cliche for the defense attorney to reveal the actual killer. The chances of that actually happening are zero. The chances of a jury consultant being instrumental in finding the real killer is even more ridiculous.
Did anyone take one for the team and watch the second episode, just to see if it got better? Assessment?
Yeah, I saw it. The accused was not guilty and a saint, of course. Her attorney was a douchebag, of course. She even said “I cant afford a lawyer” so Bull offered he his inhouse shyster (who is well played). But Bull and his crew must cost hundreds of thousands, how did she afford them?
Really bad.
I recorded the second episode, and it’s sitting there in my DVR, but I am in no hurry to watch it. I was so disappointed with the pilot that I may just ditch the series, even though I like Michael Weatherly a lot.
I’m working on it now.
(Caveat: I didn’t find the first episode as horrid as most posters in this thread, so my judgement is suspect).
On the plus side, second episode deals with a female pilot who miraculously survived a crash that killed 62 other people.
(and a case we see involved in mock trial features a Rock Star (or rapper or something) whose problem is he’s been accused of borrowing someone else’s hook, rather than writing his own original music).
So Bull is involved in a variety of types of cases, not just get rich people acquitted ones.
On the not so plus side-- I’m a little troubled by the too many moving pieces aspect of the show (how many characters are there? Are there any recurring ones aside from Bull? (I’m actually pretty sure he’s got a team that will show up repeatedly, it’s just that any individual one gets so little screen time).
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(and a case we see involved in mock trial features a Rock Star (or rapper or something) whose problem is he’s been accused of borrowing someone else’s hook, rather than writing his own original music).
So Bull is involved in a variety of types of cases, not just get rich people acquitted ones.
On the not so plus side-- I’m a little troubled by the too many moving pieces aspect of the show (how many characters are there? Are there any recurring ones aside from Bull? (I’m actually pretty sure he’s got a team that will show up repeatedly, it’s just that any individual one gets so little screen time).[/QUOTE]
He was a old school British Invasion rocker whose music had been stolen by a “one hit wonder”.
Yeah, he’s got regulars. The lawyer, a rather mousy type. The gay ex-football player, who is a fashion consultant. The smart blonde assistant, and the millennial (you can tell, she wears a knit hat in the office) hacker who does illegal computer shit.
I’ll admit-- I posted that about ten minutes in, at which point we’d definitely seen the blonde, but not neccessarily the rest, but they showed up pretty soon after my post.
I think I like all the team members, although I don’t love the whole “jury science” thing (I get that the concept is mostly real, although probably not especially typical, but I don’t love the high-tech spying or the juror manipulation).
Yes, hacking into confidential personal info is illegal and unethical.