![]() ![]() ![]() Will is just a good and interesting character, full of physical and psychological scars that inform everything he does - from his reluctant series-opening decision to adopt an adorable, abandoned chihuahua named Betty to his under-renovation home in a rough neighborhood to his relationship with Angie, which is half booty call and half jointly necessary therapy. But at least the general depiction of Atlanta is well handled, and the spreading of Will’s initial case over two episodes offers some chance for character details to emerge. Giving everything more room to breathe could have alleviated some of the challenges in explaining the GBI’s jurisdiction and how it, and Will, fit into the Atlanta law enforcement scene. That’s how the cable version of the series obviously would have played out, and I have concerns that Will Trent might transition to a case-of-the-week structure, perhaps exemplified by the wholly unengaging B-case in the second hour. The overqualified presences of a raw Morrison and an expertly blustery and bullying Gosselaar build instant investment and made me wish that the first case could have possibly been stretched across a full season, rather than rushing to a conclusion by the end of the second hour. Off to the side, but swiftly interacting with the main case, are undercover vice detective Angie (Erika Christensen), a recovering addict and another piece of Will’s traumatic past and her new partner Michael (Jake McLaughlin), who comes across as a bit of an ass, but apparently has a high case clearance rate, so we’re supposed to take him as a capable work-in-progress rather than as anything like a bad cop. Soon he’s dealing with the victim’s boorish father (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), who knows Will from a shared past, a grouchy boss (Sonja Sohn’s Amanda) and a reluctant new APD partner (Iantha Richardson’s Faith), whose grudge with Will is personal. APD decides it’s an easy solve, but Will uses his superpower - like so many Sherlockian gumshoes, it’s illustrated mostly with a lot of squinting - to pick holes in what appeared obvious, much to everybody’s chagrin. The case involves a mother (Jennifer Morrison), who returns to her ritzy suburban home, thinks she finds her teenage daughter murdered and, in a struggle, kills the man she thinks was the perpetrator. Since the GBI and APD share an office building, Will is constantly forced into contact with people who think he’s a rat or a snitch, which gets even harder when he’s called in on a major case that requires departmental cooperation. Thomsen, begins with Will facing blowback from his role in orchestrating a major police corruption probe. The series, adapted by Liz Heldens and Daniel T. His secret gifts - observational and not by-the-book because, as we quickly learn, Will is dyslexic - were honed in a rough childhood in the Atlanta foster care system and various group homes. Will (Ramón Rodriguez) is one of those archetypal Holmesian investigators who simply sees the world differently. Surely the current title is the least vivid imaginable, and it shortchanges Trent himself, an endearingly quirky, interestingly damaged special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Named with the same strategy that gave us Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector on NBC for a couple of months back in 2020, Will Trent is based on a long-running series of Atlanta-set novels by Karin Slaughter - a fact that existing fans probably still could have deduced with a more vivid title. Thomsen from the books by Karin Slaughter ![]() Tuesday, January 3 (ABC)Ĭast: Ramón Rodriguez, Erika Christensen, Iantha Richardson, Sonja Sohn, Jake McLaughlinĬreators: Liz Heldens and Daniel T.
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