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!
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]