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I need a friend in the bull fandom

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Incorrect Bull quotes 1#

Bull: Benny, I need you to stay calm, okay?

Benny: I´m just going to stay angry, I find that relaxes me.

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Chunk Palmer Aesthetic Boards.

I have a lot of love for Chunk, I also feel like he’s hella underappreciated!

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…Because I’m a pilot

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there’s no bull fandom on tumblr so i have to do everything my damn self

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​michaelmweatherly @ IG

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BULL GIF SET

Season 1 Episode 2 “The Woman in 8D”

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I’m actually a touch sad that Bull hasn’t taken off more on tumblr. It’s actually very good. They could maybe do with a bit more diversity in the cast. That being said, they focus a lot on the ensemble, including the women a lot. And they have a black woman (Jamie Lee Kirchner playing Danny), a black man (Chris Jackson playing Chunk) and a latino man (Freddy Rodriguez playing Benny). Also, there’s a young white woman who is a hacker (Annabelle Attanasio playing Cable) and a white woman who is clearly Bull’s second in command (Geneva Carr playing Marissa).

And when I say the focus on the ensemble, I really mean it. I wouldn’t say Michael Weatherly isn’t the lead, but it always feels like the cast make significant additions. Chunk has gotten some really good scenes and Benny has had two episodes focused on him and his returning to law after having been fired from the DA’s office for throwing a case where he knew the accused was innocent. Cable has also gotten a lot of good screen time, and I believe that Danny and Marissa will become more filled out as the series goes because they are spending time filling out the other characters slowly.

And I want to add that Chunk is a gay former football player who decided to work in fashion instead, who left Vogue to work with Bull and help their clients learn to dress for the jury. His scenes have shown him to be infinitely kind. One of my favorites is when he’s helping a woman who’s been raped and accused of murder. He talks to her about how she presents herself, and is gentle about it. He’s actually pretty gentle with everyone so far. He makes friend with a baliff in a small southern town who used to play football as well. He ends up pushing the guy to get his shirt tailored because it would look better on him. I love that he’s able to embrace every part of who he is and was. Also, Chunk is the newest person on the team and therefore plays the “everyman” roll, where they can ask questions that the audience is asking, and react to things the way the audience is supposed to. And he looks consistently awesome is fashionable tailored suits.

The premise of the show itself is really fun to watch. It leans on the whole courtroom procedural and is a case-of-the-week show. But what works the best is that in a tv world where so many people are just cruel, all of the characters on the show are so kind. In the same episode about the woman who had been raped, Cable spends time getting close to the woman because they have the same interests in bands. Marissa constantly pokes Bull with a stick to try and help him take his walls down. She’s not a bitch, or a nagging mom. She’s a professional, Bull’s equal, and caring about her friend. So far the show has taken time to give more and more characters time to take care of the people around them and to be friendly. They’re good at their jobs. Each character has their own personality and they aren’t mean or truly underhanded.

And here’s what really gets me. Bull is another tortured white male genius. And he is so kind. He is so gentle. He’s careful and carring toward women. Again with the woman who had been raped and was on trial, Bull supports her at every turn and does his best to help get through the case, her panic attacks, and to get her life back after a vicious smear campaign. There’s an episode earlier with a female pilot who’s plane crashed and everyone but the pilot died and she has no memory. Bull believes in her even when she doesn’t believe in herself. The episode itself is about gender bias and how incidious it is.

In addition, Bull is a man who has been deeply hurt, and became a psychiatrist because he wanted to know how people worked so he could help himself. He’s withdrawn in some ways. He’s closed off because of his pain and because his skills make it so easy for him to read people that he can easily manipulate them. And what does he do? He’s kind to people around him. Sure he can be snarky as fuck, but he’s so kind and gentle with his clients and team. He wants to help people.

Think about House, Sherlock and so many other shows where the tortured genius is just a huge asshole whose cruelty is simply played off as okay because the man is a tortured genius. To have a show which is ensemble heavy, with an equal ratio of men to women, has some good diversity (especially for a show on cbs) where the main character so perfectly fits a standard and popular trope… and then to have them turn that on its ear?

This is a good show. It’s really good. I want more people to take a look at it because it’s good.

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Stunning as always

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Incorrect Bull quotes 3#

Marissa: Tell them about the birds and the bees.

Bull, to the Team: They´re disappearing at an alarming rate.

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Incorrect Bull quotes 2#

Cable: Thanks Dad... why is everyone staring at me?

Chunk: You just called Bull dad; you said thanks dad

Cable: What? No, I didn´t? I said thanks man

Bull: Do you see me as a father figure?

Cable: No, if anything I see you as a bother figure because you´re always bothering me

Marissa: Hey, don´t talk to your dad like that