NBC’s unorthodox procedural, The Irrational, returned for a second season in late 2024, but will the Jesse L. Martin TV vehicle be renewed for season 3? Debuting in fall 2023 (and loosely based on the life of Dan Ariely), The Irrational concerns Professor Alec Mercer (Martin) who uses his knowledge of human behavior to assist the police in cracking some of their toughest cases. Haunted by a bombing which left him permanently scarred, Mercer attempts to pull together the irrationality of the human mind into a pattern that can be observed and used for good.