The Irrational Trailer: Jesse L. Martin Puts Fresh Spin on Law and Order in New NBC Procedural — Watch
Law & Order vet Jesse L. Martin is headed back to NBC this fall in the new crime procedural The Irrational, the first trailer of which dropped Monday (watch above).
Ordered to series last December, The Irrational — which is set to air Mondays at 10 pm beginning Sept. 25 — follows Martin’s Alec Baker, a world-renowned professor of behavioral science who offers up his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior to help solve an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations.
As we recently reported, The Irrational completed production on its inaugural 10-episode season prior to the onset of the crippling writers’ and actors’ strikes.
In addition to Martin, who is coming off of a nine-season run on The CW’s The Flash, the cast also includes Maahra Hill (Delilah), Travina Springer (Ms. Marvel), Molly Kunz (Finding Carter) and Arash DeMaxi (Partner Track).
Arika Lisanne Mittman (Elementary, Timeless) penned The Irrational pilot and will serve as an executive producer alongside Mark Goffman, Samuel Baum and director David Frankel. Martin also carries a producer credit.
The Irrational is inspired by the best-selling book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, who serves as a consultant on the NBC series.
The previews for this show all look great! I love Jesse!
It sounds like a good show, so why did they stick it with such a terrible, forgettable title? It reminds me of the recent “SNL” sketch in which game-show contestants didn’t recognize the names of a bunch of popular cable series. (Yes, this is loosely based on a nonfiction book called “Predictably Irrational,” which points out that people often don’t behave in rational ways — but it’s a big leap from that to “The Irrational” as the title of a network detective show.)
I do have a hard time recalling the name of this show over time, even though it’s on my radar screen of shows I want to watch this Fall
I’m going to try it out
I think CBS already had a show like this with Alan CUmmings in the lead. It was a good show and I was sorry it didn’t last.
Love Jesse L. Martin. So will check it out.
Instinct was an amazing show and I loved that there was no will they/wont they thing.
*Alan Cumming.
Yes! I was coming (no pun intended) to the comments to say it looks like they just knocked off Instinct which was an underrated show IMO
Or ‘Lie to Me’? Or ‘Criminal Minds’ or a whole host of similar shows.
Reminds me of Perception a bit.
I’m sure this will be a good series, but it’s NBC. So, unless it’s connected to Dick Wolf, they’ll pay no attention to it & cancel it after 2 seasons.
Does this look like Scorpion?
As one of the few new series this fall, it may do better than it would have otherwise. Hopefully it does for all involved.
I’ve had a crush on Martin since I first saw him on Ally McBeal ages ago. I’m looking forward to this.
I thought I saw a glimmer of intelligence in all the quick cuts but then the last exchanging, not understanding the scientific meaning of “theory” vs the popular one… Sigh. Writers aren’t smart, so the characters probably won’t be.
Jesse L. Martin? Oh hell YES I’ll be watching!
Drop “The” from the title. One-word titles are always better. More memorable. I’ll give it a try. It’ll be one of the few new shows on this Fall.
I’m really looking forward to this. Martin was great on L&O. I’ll watch it for him alone.
Is there going to be another season of the Irrational miss this show
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