First Look at NBC's The Irrational with Jesse L. Martin

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Here's your first look at the NBC drama series The Irrational Season 1, executive produced by Arika Lisanne Mittman.  The Irrational Cast:  Jesse L. Martin, Ella Cannon, Molly Kunz,  Soma Chhaya, Maahra Hill and Teach Grant  Stream The Irrational Season 1 now on Peacock!

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00:00 People are irrational.

00:01 One error in judgment leads to another,

00:04 which is why someone ends up calling me.

00:07 You another negotiator.

00:09 I would never work in law enforcement.

00:10 It pays crap and that's saying something

00:12 coming from a college professor.

00:13 I'm Alec Mercer.

00:18 Welcome to Applied Psychology.

00:20 You're the science guy.

00:21 That's Bill Nye.

00:22 I'm actually the behavioral science guy.

00:24 It's your standard procedural

00:25 with nothing standard about it.

00:27 Alec has the bonus of being very tuned in on human behavior.

00:32 How did you know he wasn't gonna pull the trigger?

00:34 It works about 95% of the time.

00:36 It feels really great to be back on NBC.

00:39 I've played detectives on Law & Order for a long time.

00:41 Here I am back, I'm almost starting to feel like

00:44 an emotional detective.

00:46 Wow, I just thought of that, emotional detective.

00:48 Remember that, children?

00:49 It's called the cocktail party effect.

00:51 You're in a crowd, you're talking to one person,

00:53 everything else becomes background noise

00:55 until you hear something like the word sex.

00:57 See, everyone hears the word sex.

00:58 Alec's superpower is behavioral psychology.

01:02 He can predict behavior of everyone around him

01:04 and yet have these blind spots.

01:06 That ability that you have is both why I married you

01:09 and why--

01:10 You're no longer married to me.

01:11 Alec's ex-wife, Marissa, works for the FBI.

01:14 I work for everybody who has anything to do

01:16 with law enforcement.

01:17 It works very well professionally

01:19 and for the first, I'd say 15 years,

01:22 it worked really well personally.

01:24 Who do you think you are, James Bond?

01:26 I think I threw my back out.

01:27 Alec is my older brother.

01:29 They deeply love each other,

01:30 but they kind of get on each other's nerves.

01:31 Working and enjoying life

01:33 don't have to be mutually exclusive.

01:35 Do not therapize me this early in the day.

01:38 I haven't even had my coffee yet.

01:39 It's more like she has a very keen eye

01:42 on how Alec behaves.

01:43 Are you seriously playing with fire?

01:46 I was burned once before,

01:47 the odds of it happening again are very low.

01:49 The Irrational is about human behavior and psychology.

01:53 It's fascinating to understand

01:56 why people do the things they do.

01:58 That's really the big question to ask.

02:00 Are you considering all the pros and cons right now?

02:02 We could talk it through if it helps.

02:03 If it piques the audience curiosity,

02:05 honestly, potentially we could change the world.

02:06 This is where understanding human nature could be helpful.

02:10 I didn't give up hope.

02:11 It's a hope that'll kill you.

02:12 Science says the opposite.

02:14 Hopefully I'm really good at being your steward

02:18 or your host in all of it.

02:19 Did you really help the Rams win the Super Bowl?

02:20 That was a risky experiment, but it worked out for them.

02:23 [Music]

02:26 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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