Much as I liked the Dinozzo character, the Bull premise has no appeal for me. Glad there's a thread to follow though to see if I'm missing something.
I actually haven't put a single new show on my schedule this fall. I had a dozen or so last year and ditched the whole lot right out of the box except Blindspot and Limitless where I stuck it out until the holiday break...
I'll give it a shot, I don't think I watch anything nowadays that isn't serialized, it might be nice to have a show that I can watch every now and then and not be completely lost if I miss a show every now and then.
Unless "Bull" starts taking some pro-bono cases it will be one filthy rich defendant after another. Can't imagine anyone other than a multi millionaire affording anything close to that level of background work. Sends a message to the average person that they are screwed by our legal system.
Michael Connely's (Bosch) Micky Haller uses jury consultants. It adds an interesting but very minor element to the story. I could see a limited series based on it but 20+ episode seasons? I just can't see that...
Seriously, after watching the 2nd episode, this show will have a hard time avoiding re-telling the same story over and over... Despite its initial ratings, I can't see it lasting.
I can't remember anything this bad ever. The reporter on USA Today had this one done to a tee. Really bad. No Bull. If this lasts 3 weeks then I'm a monkeys uncle.
On the other hand I can't hardly wait for next Wed for the 2nd episode of Designated Survivor.
I can't remember anything this bad ever. The reporter on USA Today had this one done to a tee. Really bad. No Bull. If this lasts 3 weeks then I'm a monkeys uncle.
My wife and myself have been NCIS fans since the start and decided to check out "Tony's " new show since we enjoyed his role on it. After about 15 minutes we looked at each other shook out heads and we're out,went ahead and deleted it from the DVR record list as well.
NOLA is nothing special IMO - if Bull fades I'll be interested to see how well NOLA holds up separated from NCIS. I don't see the cast shakeup as much of an improvement...
The wife & I watched because we both like Weatherly and found the only thing appealing about the Bull character is Weatherly himself. The character he plays though is an improbable know-it-all and an ass, so nix on this one for me. My wife wants to give it another chance.
As a career trial lawyer, these kinds of shows have a high threshold to cross with me, and the magical qualities of this jury consultant taking over the case border on comical.
I don't know if I would call this show "overproduced", as in the comment above, but it does not seem to be a premise with staying power.
I don't mind overmuch when they stick to civil cases, but AFAIK, the second episode was about criminal negligence on the part of a female airline pilot, and the first was about an actual (fictional) crime.
I know I am being naive, and that jury consultants actually exist and they do probably get off defendants who don't deserve it. I also despise Dr. Phil. But I prefer to keep my illusions about the criminal justice system and I have decided to give the show one more episode. If it proves to be about another crime (versus a civil proceeding), I am not watching a fourth episode. (My DVR stopped recording right after the "Next Week" splash screen, so I really don't know what it's about.)
I'm still liking it
I agree, many of the things that happen seem overly unlikely but most shows now days are like that, besides after the Goodwife I don't think were watching any lawyer shows......got to be watching at least one
If the innocent always are found innocent and the guilty guilty then show is lame. It needs to be realistic.......in that good lawyers(they imply that this science is near foolproof), etc can and do get guilty people off.
Waiting for a episode where a clearly guilty person is found innocent due to this jury "science" and manipulation.
If they try to make this another good guys always win and bad guys always lose TV show then no thanks.
My wife's father and one of my best friends (2 different people) were air traffic controllers. They have a very tried-and-true method for handling planes should the computer systems fail. Because they do (or did) fail rather frequently. I've been in the tower when it happened and they just don't bat an eye. Took me a while to get past the initial premise. Not that there weren't other things that struck me as wrong.
Plus - at least when I was up there - there's nothing to hack. Tower computers didn't talk to anything.
Radar, for the most part. It can also identify the plane by the plane's transponder, but that's no more "talking" to anything than your car's computer getting the tire pressure from a sensor in the valve stem.
By not "talking to anything," I meant that they don't communicate externally. There's no way for a hacker to access the system unless he's actually IN the control tower. To bring down a control tower computer, you'd have to just unplug it. Can't access it any other way. Unless a lot of things have changed, which I doubt.
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