The Best Episodes of Bull
Every episode of Bull ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bull!
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Bull" is "Death Sentence", rated 8.6/10 from 458 user votes. It was directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and written by Glenn Gordon Caron, Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka. "Death Sentence" aired on 5/8/2018 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Justice for Cable".
8.6/10 458 votes#1 - Death Sentence
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2018
Bull’s team is rocked when their client, Elliott Miles, is found guilty of murder, and they must regroup as the trial enters the penalty phase in order to prevent him from being sentenced to death. But when new evidence emerges that could prove Elliott’s innocence, Bull must find a way to present it in court without being found in contempt. Also, Marissa faces hard truths about her relationship with Bull.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka
8.3/10 369 votes#2 - Justice for Cable
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2018
Business becomes personal for Bull when TAC assists with a civil suit against the bank that funded the terrorists responsible for Cable's death. Also, Marissa enlists her former homeland security co-worker and international banking cyber-investigator, Taylor Rentzel, to help with the suit.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Bill Chais
8.2/10 369 votes#3 - Reckless
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/2018
Bull's team takes on a seemingly unwinnable case; a mute man faces the death penalty if he's found guilty of murder and arson; Bull is stunned to learn that his ex-wife is remarrying.
Director: Vincent Misiano
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka
8.2/10 246 votes#4 - A Friend in Need
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/17/2021
Izzy puts the brakes on her wedding to Bull after he jeopardizes Benny’s election campaign by handling the defense in the corruption trial of the former District Attorney that Benny hopes to replace. Season finale.
Director: Eric Stoltz
Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler, Travis Donnelly
8.2/10 168 votes#5 - Silent Killer
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/2022
When Bull handles the negligent homicide defense of a building owner accused of killing tenants by carbon monoxide poisoning, the case rocks Bull and the TAC team to their core. Also, TAC’s trial defense is made more difficult when the ADA prosecuting the case is Chunk’s ex-boyfriend, Rob Jones, someone very familiar with Bull’s tricks; and Taylor is forced to reevaluate her work-life balance when she gets shocking news about her son.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher
8.1/10 336 votes#6 - A Girl Without Feelings
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/2018
Bull confronts his guilt over closing his psychiatric practice to start TAC when his former patient, a young woman who is a clinical sociopath, goes on trial for killing her brother. When Bull and Benny’s client has no memory of the crime due to her mental condition, they enter a "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" plea and aim to seat jurors that are sympathetic to mental illness.
Director: Mary Lou Belli
Writer: Chamblee Smith
8.1/10 288 votes#7 - Pillar of Salt
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2019
Bull works to convince a jury that an alleged murder was actually a tragic accident when TAC represents a woman charged with her 3-year-old stepdaughter’s death.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
8.1/10 307 votes#8 - Safe and Sound
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2019
Bull mounts the defense of an old college friend, Eric Crawford, who is charged with negligent homicide after Eric’s youngest child kills his eldest with Eric’s handgun.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler
8.1/10 191 votes#9 - Confidence Man
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2021
Bull’s legal troubles go from professional to personal when new evidence in his bribery trial implicates his wife, Izzy. Also, the TAC team’s efforts to assist Bull in court are thwarted by his attorney, who fears they will cross a legal line to help their boss.
Director: Geary McLeod
Writer: Jenny Raftery
8.1/10 225 votes#10 - Goodbye
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/26/2022
Bull and the team head to court one last time to finalize a negligent homicide defense that will change the nature of their company and their lives forever.
Director: Eric Stoltz
Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
8.0/10 408 votes#11 - Witness for the Prosecution
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2018
The DA hires Bull to help convict Hazel Diaz, an infamous drug dealer who murdered a police officer but has managed to avoid jail for years on an insanity defense by feigning schizophrenia.
Director: Alex Pillai
Writer: Marissa Matteo
8.0/10 362 votes#12 - Excessive Force
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018
When the team consults for the NYPD on the defense of a police officer accused of excessive force in the shooting of an unarmed man, the social politics surrounding the case create tension within their own ranks.
Director: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
8.0/10 316 votes#13 - But for the Grace
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2018
Bull takes on a pro bono client who was poorly advised by his public defender to plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and is now facing felony manslaughter after the victim dies.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler
8.0/10 287 votes#14 - Split Hairs
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2019
Bull mounts the defense of New York City’s chief medical examiner, Julia Martin, when she is charged with tampering with evidence tied to the years-old case that made her career. As Bull worries that his client’s propensity for brutal honesty could affect her chances in court, he aims to fill the jury with individuals inclined to believe she made a mistake rather than conspired to tamper with forensic evidence.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: Samuel McConnell
8.0/10 286 votes#15 - Forfeiture
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2019
The TAC team works tandem cases when Chunk represents his first legal client, Darius Lambert, a young man facing federal counterfeiting charges, and Bull represents Darius’ grandfather, Willie Lambert, who may lose his business to the FBI for owning the barbershop where the fake goods were sold.
Director: Alex Pillai
Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler
7.9/10 333 votes#16 - A Redemption
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/2018
Bull helps Jim Grayson, a respectable family man who was arrested for changing his identity after being the unwitting getaway driver in a fatal robbery years ago. Bull hopes they can convince the jury that Jim has redeemed himself for his past misdeeds by living an upstanding life for years.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: H. Park
7.9/10 345 votes#17 - Justified
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/2018
A friend from Bull’s past enlists his services to help convince a jury that a domestic abuse survivor who shot her husband in his sleep is not guilty of murder because she feared for her life and the life of her unborn child.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Chamblee Smith
7.9/10 411 votes#18 - The Ground Beneath Their Feet
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2018
Bull returns to work following his heart attack with a new rich client for the firm to represent: an insurance company being sued by a dying mother for denying coverage of her liver transplant.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron
7.9/10 380 votes#19 - Jury Duty
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2018
Bull finds himself serving jury duty while simultaneously mounting a defense for a woman on trial for killing her daughter's murderer.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler
7.9/10 318 votes#20 - Fool Me Twice
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2018
Bull and the TAC team help one of their own when Marissa’s restaurateur husband, Greg, is charged with involuntary manslaughter after one of his employees dies in a kitchen fire allegedly caused by negligence. During voire dire, Bull and Benny aim to select jurors who will believe the fire was an accident and not a pattern of irresponsible management.
Director: Michael Smith
Writer: Sarah H. Haught
7.9/10 347 votes#21 - Separation
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2018
Danny enlists her colleagues to help when her boyfriend, Gabriel, is arrested for being in the country illegally and threatened with deportation. Also, Bull represents a German national who is being sued by a museum over possession of a valuable painting.
Director: Kevin Berlandi
Writer: Travis Donnelly
7.9/10 296 votes#22 - Parental Guidance
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/18/2019
Bull and the TAC team represent a teen boy raised in complete isolation when the young man goes on trial for murder after engaging in a deadly shootout. As the trial gets underway, Bull looks to select jurors who believe his sheltered client acted under the misguided influence of the only other person he has ever known, his survivalist father.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Travis Donnelly
7.9/10 289 votes#23 - Don't Say a Word
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/1/2019
Bull's romantic rival, Diana Lindsay, jeopardizes her career when she secretly has Bull come to Texas to assist a couple fighting against her former client for custody of their grandchildren.
Director: Alex Pillai
Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
7.9/10 270 votes#24 - Bounty
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/15/2019
Danny enlists Bull's help for the assault trial of her former FBI mentor, a bounty hunter who kidnapped the wrong mark during his first assignment.
Director: Tessa Blake
Writer: Bill Chais
7.9/10 277 votes#25 - Rectify
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2019
Benny’s previous career with the District Attorney’s office comes into focus when Chunk, working with his law professor’s legal clinic, aims to get a new trial for Eddie Mitchell, a man he believes was wrongfully convicted of triple homicide by a prosecution team that included Benny.
Director: Kevin Berlandi
Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price