It’s not every day that I’m asked to review a television show co-created, produced and written by my former boss, Dr. Phil McGraw. “Bull,” the not-so-new CBS drama features Dr. Jason Bull, a trial scientist and jury consultant who has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve. He dances around the rules of procedure and doesn’t seem to care about ethical guidelines. But hey, the show would be ridiculously dull if it weren’t a gross exaggeration of the world of jury consulting. So instead of “dull,” we have “Bull.”
Despite the blatantly unrealistic accoutrements, e.g., the swanky, tricked-out office technology, a diverse staff (prosecutors, FBI investigators, NSA hackers, neurolinguistics expert/sex therapist, and even an ex-NFL-player-turned-Vogue-fashion-stylist), and having wireless ops-like communications with his team while sitting at counsel table during trial, the show does have nuggets of realism.
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