Will Trent – Season 2: Disney+ TV Series Review: Created by Liz Heldens, Daniel T. Thomsen, and Karin Slaughter and inspired by the novel series of the same name by the latter, Will Trent is one of the best series currently in circulation. In production since 2023, the series is a police procedural and crime drama in its second season, already enthusiastically renewed for a third season expected in 2025. Available in Italy on Disney+, it takes us into the world of the talented special agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez). Will has a very high number of solved cases under his belt (especially, the corruption of several officers of the police department who see him as a traitor). At his side – among others – his childhood friend Angie Polaski (Erika Christensen), an APD detective, and his inseparable dog Betty, adopted after the death of his neighbor.
Will Trent: respect for the law
Will has always loved working alone, but one day, Captain Amanda Wagner (Sonja Sohn) pairs him with Agent Faith Mitchell (Iantha Richardson). Faith also doesn’t particularly like Will, because he “ruined” her mother’s career. Surrounded by a climate of hatred, it immediately becomes clear how important intellectual honesty and the law are to the protagonist, above all else.
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Having grown up without a family and having been passed from one foster home to another when he was little, Will survived also thanks to the help of Angie, whom he has known since he was a boy (she too has a very difficult past). The great love of his life, Angie is Detective Michael Ormewood's (Jake McLaughlin) partner on the job.
During the episodes of the second season, Will has had the opportunity to discover his Puerto Rican origins and the identity of his mother, starting to learn Spanish to feel closer to her. We love everything about Will: the way he investigates the smallest details for example, because already by observing the crime scene he understands what others ignore. Above all, Will does all this despite being dyslexic. Unlike those who would see dyslexia as an obstacle, Will is passionate about his work and takes notes with a classic voice recorder.
At his side - although the years pass and their story has numerous ups and downs - there is always her: Angie. In the second season, the detective finds herself having to face the man who raped her when she was a little girl. Seeing him again makes her suffer. Precisely for this reason, she defends the man's new victim - the daughter of the latter's partner - trying to protect her from the system in every way, hiding what happened even from her Will. Angie feels responsible for what happened: if she had acted earlier, Crystal (Chapel Oaks) would not have been raped by her stepfather and would never have killed him to defend herself. Feeling guilty, Angie takes the blame for the murder, appealing to self-defense and thus saving the girl's future.
The importance of human relationships
In the final episode of the second season, 2×10 Do You See the Vision?, Will, Faith, Michael, and Amanda find themselves investigating a serial killer who kills pedophiles. We follow the story from two points of view: Will's first and Angie's after. And we do it day after day, as the days of the week that we see appearing colorfully on the screen remind us.
The investigation leads Will to believe that those who kill do it for revenge because they want to kill perverts. In fact, that's exactly how it is. What he doesn't know is that the murderers are Crystal and that she was the one who killed Angie's rapist. Angie, for her part, connects the dots and understands: she goes to Crystal to clarify, hoping she's wrong, but the girl gets scared and runs away, falling and dying.
For Will, everything becomes clear: Crystal killed the man who raped Angie when she was a girl, Lenny Broussard (French Stewart), and Angie hid everything to protect her. At the beginning of the episode, a very much-in-love Will shows Angie their new living room table because he thinks it can “add purpose to their lives, a more concrete and broader perspective.” Will dreams of a life with Angie and does so – with open eyes – even at the end, when he realizes that the detective has been hiding the truth from him. To the tune of Presence by Brittany Howard, we see what could have been the beautiful future of Will and Angie: the two getting married, the first night of their wedding, the rush to the hospital for the birth of their first child, the other children, the disappearance of Betty, the arrival of a new puppy and old age. Instead, no: unexpectedly, we are brought back to the harsh reality in which Will Trent does not bend and chooses - once again - the law over everything, even giving up the love of his life for "tampering with evidence", "false testimony" and "violation of oath".
Will Trent - season 2: evaluation and conclusion
Well-written, captivating, and full of twists, the series takes place in the intolerant Atlanta, Georgia in the USA while a series of this kind, usually, is set in cities like New York and Los Angeles. Charismatic, intuitive, and altruistic, Will Trent redeems himself from a life that could have corrupted him and that, instead, he screwed, becoming a GBI agent and helping others, whenever he can: from the dog to whom he opens the doors of his house to every person in difficulty to whom he always tries to lend a hand, with extreme generosity. If it is true that Will Trent holds up the entire series, it is equally true that the supporting characters are well-developed and interesting. After all, the strong point of this crime drama is the relationships between the characters, which are convincing from the very beginning.
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