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'Bull' Season 5: Release date, plot, cast and all you need to know about CBS legal drama starring Michael Weatherly

The story follows Bull and his staff as they use skills to choose perfect jurors for their clients and helps the clients’ lawyers to form their arguments which would turns the case in their favor

BY LAKSHANA PALAT

PUBLISHED NOV 16, 2020

'Bull' is back with a Season 5 and just like other shows, it will address the Covid-19 pandemic. The show revolves around 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 turns the case in their favor. Bull is nothing less than a prolific genius, as he uses his in-depth knowledge previous data and knowledge of the human psyche to help his clients.

Here's what we know about the Season 5 of 'Bull'.

Release date

'Bull' Season 5 returns on Monday, November 16, on CBS at 10 pm ET.

Plot

'Bull' will focus on the pandemic. The synopsis for the premiere 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." The episode itself, is titled 'My Corona'.

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.

Cast

Michael Weatherly

'Bull' stars Michael Weatherly as the titular character. He is known for playing the role of Anthony DiNozzo in the television series 'NCIS' (2003–2016), and earlier played Logan Cale in the drama 'Dark Angel' (2000–2002). Weatherly is joined by Freddy Rodriguez as Benjamin "Benny" Colón, Bull's brother-in-law, Geneva Carr as Marissa Morgan, a neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security, Jaime Lee Kirchner (as Danielle "Danny" James, the team's head investigator, and Christopher Jackson as Chunk Palmer, a fashion stylist who prepares clients for court.