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- 2023
- TV-14
- ABC
- 2023
- TV-14
- ABC
- 2023
- TV-14
- ABC
- 2023
- TV-14
- ABC
Will Trent
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 3, 2023
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5.8
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
71
100% Positive
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10 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Will Trent continues to entertain with characters that have really deep backstories and cases that are good enough to follow, even if they take a backseat to all of the character arcs.
Would it be good if those crimes were a bit better plotted? Yes, but in the meantime, we’re happy just hanging with Will’s gang.
User Score
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Based on 12 User Ratings
5.8
42% Positive
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33% Mixed
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25% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
5.8
42% Positive
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5 Ratings
33% Mixed
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4 Ratings
25% Negative
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I like Will Trent he is brilliant & writers/producers etc need to bring that out more. I like his crew too girlfriend needs to be a bit stronger, she appears weak. Better plotted crimes would help. There is a lot of improvement that can be done with this series I do hope they can make the improvements that will make this a series that will go on for years-it has a lot of promise, let's see if the writers etc can do their jobs. I am looking forward to a season 2 with some improvements.
Love Betty, she should get an oscar
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Will Trent remains a breezy and entertaining take on the classic procedural format. Thankfully, the writers have found a way to create a show that complements Slaughter’s novels but can easily stand on its own.
“Will Trent” borrows plenty from the past (the Carpenters, for example) and dabbles in the present (the pronoun debate) before settling in a world so remote from Cabot Cove you couldn’t classify the series as similar. ... The series could erupt.
Not always empirically good, but better than the bland title and awful opening sequence might lead you to suspect, ABC’s Will Trent quickly emerges as an above-average broadcast TV procedural — even if it’s exactly those structural trappings that so frequently undermine it.
While the procedural part of Will Trent needs a lot of improvement, the characters are so well-established from the start that the first two episodes are entertaining and make us want to see more.
If Will Trent wants to cut through the noise of a crowded genre, it will need to reevaluate its storytelling approach and lean into the eccentricities of its promising protagonist.
Ramón Rodríguez as Will Trent seems like a fine match for the purpose of the setup. But everything around him seems like secondhand acting. Seeing Sonja Sohn acting in this made my toes curl up, having seen her in The Wire, and how well she acted there, either she have lost her flair, or someone on the other side of the camera doesn't know how to direct.
Looking at it, it seems most likely that both the story writers and the people with the direction and vision for this series, wanted to focus on personal agendas more than directing and writing a good story and let it play out.
Wouldn't recommend, better series worth spending time on.
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Started off promising, but then degenerated into boring cases and woke **** Everyone with any authority is black/hispanic, with some added LGBTQ representation. No way Georgia Bureau of Investigation is staffed exclusively by people of color, and there's no way a cop can do his job without being able to read and write. Way too much character development to the point where the actual cases they work is an afterthought of ripped off plots from better shows. I don't expect much from network TV, but the first episode of this was not bad. Went downhill quickly.
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Production Company:
- 3 Arts Entertainment
- Selfish Mermaid
- 20th Television
- Lightnin' Production Rentals
Initial Release Date: Jan 3, 2023
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Astra Television Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Imagen Foundation Awards
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
