'Bull' Season 5 Episode 1 Preview: How will Bull and TAC manage with a virtual court system?
Good news for those who have enjoyed 'Bull' for the past four seasons. The show will be back for its fifth round, keeping in mind then coronavirus pandemic that has crippled the world this year. The show chronicles the tale of Dr Jason Bull and his firm Trial Analysis Corporation (TAC)’s employees. Bull is a psychologist and is fully skilled in trial science. He is the head of TAC, a jury consulting firm. The story follows Bull and his employees as they use their skills to choose the perfect jurors for their clients and helps the clients’ lawyers to form their arguments which would turn the case in their favor. Bull is nothing less than a mastermind, as he uses his in-depth knowledge of previous data and knowledge of the human psyche to help his clients.
The synopsis for Episode 1 reads, "Bull and the TAC team struggle to adjust to a virtual court system as they weather the New York shutdown due to Covid-19."
In the makeshift finale of Season 4, 'Off the Rails' focused on Astrid's baptism and the TAC defending a driver who was involved in a train accident and later has no memory of it. This made fans happy, even though it wasn't intended to be the finale.
In an interview with TVLine, executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron explained that he didn't plan to acknowledge the pandemic at first. "Truthfully, when we first shut down, I naively thought, 'Well, this is going to be over in May.' My initial plan was not to acknowledge it. People tune in to see this legal drama about Jason Bull and the people who work for him, and it just felt not on point," he said. "But as it continued on, and on, and on, and became a part of the fabric of everyone's life — and taking into account that our show is set and actually filmed in New York City — I thought it was irresponsible. But also I thought, 'There's something really interesting going on here.' And people are going to look back in 20, 30 years, and they're going to go, 'That was a fascinating moment.' And to ignore the moment seemed like a missed opportunity," he added.
'Bull' airs on CBS at 10 pm.