Danny, played by Jaime Lee Kirchner, is a former cop who investigates things and goes so conspicuously undercover. Marissa, played by Geneva Carr, is a Homeland Security veteran who gives expositional clunky guided tours around the facility and knows a lot about neurolinguistics.
Cable, played by Annabelle Attanasio, is a hacker. She also lectures Dr. Bull on things millennials do. There’s also a stylist played by Christopher Jackson
Dr. Bull’s entire introduction in the pilot episode has been tweaked just enough that viewers got an improved glimpse of a smarmy, snarky, pick-pocketing doctor, who likes to flirt with the ladies and has a prodigiously refined gaydar.
The opening case is a neutral litmus test on its main character and it’s also a legal mess, full of implausible courtroom antics and several action scenes that pilot director Rodrigo Garcia handled so poorly
The pilot episode also ends with a problematic device in which the truth of the case is revealed outside of Dr. Bull’s point of view, a pretty straight-up undermining of the show’s thesis that trying the facts and innocent until proven guilty are already antiquated approaches.
“Bull” does not feel like it is intended to be provocative to have any real impact on people’s feelings about the justice system. Its adoration of Dr. Bull’s qualifications and smirky, growly omniscience and its awe at the technology his team wields takes the place of a meaningful legal critique, procedural precision or developing an ensemble.