SummarySpecial Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez), who grew up in the foster care system, solves cases for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) in this drama series based on Karin Slaughter's book series.
SummarySpecial Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez), who grew up in the foster care system, solves cases for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) in this drama series based on Karin Slaughter's book series.
“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.
Ramón Rodríguez, playing the central detective, makes for a sympathetic and rootable figure. The challenge the show faces will be bringing the story up to his and his costars’ level.
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.