Will Trent (TV Series) Don't Let It Happen Again (2023) User Reviews

A bit rushed and obvious, but ok

[juanramollino · 6/10 · 19 August 2023]

The episode is a bit too in your face and obvious. Felt they rushed the mystery to cover everything they wanted. It could have been a two-parter like the first mystery and play things better.

Surely, you want every character you introduce to have a spot, but when you watched too many procedurals, you need to try better to confuse the audience.

And let's not talk about the jump to the bridge scene. It was "well, we have to keep it under 44 minutes so there's no time to show how everything came to be." This is not broadcast TV, you can give it 5 more minutes.

I like the main characters and their backstories make them interesting. Thought everything is still a bit disconnected. But it's just episode 3, so I'll give it some more time.

To be Reminded of Race

[pdxqraj · 10/10 · 15 March 2023]

Trent was just as amazing in this episode, and his relationship with Faith is forming. This kind of storyline is very realistic. What more could you ask for from a show based in Georgia, which is in the South with a Black population hovering around 33%?

I'm black; I'll start with that. A show touching on the life that Black people REALLY live with realistic 'stereotypes' gets y'all in a cognitive dissonance circle jerk. 1) Drowning Black towns happened, and we're still dealing with the aftermath. Being Black everyday, I never forget. 2) Just sit back and watch a show that reveals segments of life that YOU may not relate to, but are no more less real because you haven't lived it.

Hate to break it to you, but there is a grain of truth in stereotypes, just like sarcasm and jokes. I didn't grow up in a group home, but I can EMPATHIZE with the central protagonists. Try EMPATHY and removing your implicit and explicit biases.

Reminds me of the last two seasons of Game of Thrones

[mmerz-36779 · 3/10 · 23 January 2023]

I enjoyed the pilot and the author's book. For this episode, the main plot seemed fraught with forced coincidences and oddball actions. Such things kick me out of suspended disbelief, ruining my enjoyment of the show. While the pilot is based on the author's book, I didn't read a book with this plot.

---Spoilers---

In the primary plot, Will & Faith are dispatched to investigate a murder at a "haunted" lake. Other than Faith being uncomfortable once, nothing more is made of the "haunted" status.

Faith's personal vehicle blows a tire and she's already running on the spare. The scene establishes that Faith has 2 phones but uses one exclusively for her son. (What? Why?) Car is towed to garage that is run by a conspiracy theorist (Otis).

Murder scene is investigated. A bloody nail is bagged & tagged. The nail was secure enough to bloody the unsub as he ran by yet Will pulled it from the post easily??? Some might also wonder why there is a random nail in a post of a nice dock.

Back at the station we discover that the unsub is a serial killer related to a family murdered in their car 20 years ago. The sheriff of that time, who is now demented, did not investigate. The Captain (Amanda) puts herself on the case.

The Captain is getting a beverage at in town. Comes out to a jerk using the hood of his double-parked truck as a picnic table. Oops. It isn't his double-parked truck, it is her personal vehicle. Why is she being a double-parking jerk?

The team goes to a reporter's house to look at ~evidence from cold case. The evidence is in boxes outside. (???) Find a picture linking the murdered family with two current victims, Otis, and someone in a basketball jersey. (Also, are there any Georgians out there that say "Would you like a cup of iced tea"?)

Team, with local deputy, goes to Otis' house. His "sovereign" self gets agitated and threatens team with a shotgun. Deputy shoots him dead.

Will learns the bloody nail is missing and that Otis' garage is used as evidence storage.

Will & Captain go to Otis' garage/ evidence lock-up and find the car in which the family was murdered. (I'm not sure what that says about Otis...) Faith & Deputy take the picture to the demented former sheriff to identify 4th suspect. (Is there no-one else to take it to? What about the reporter that gave it to them in the first place?) Shock! It's his son, "Chip"! Also, there was a baby in the car that wasn't murdered!

Deputy goes into store while Faith updates Will & Captain. She manages to spray a clear soda all over herself. Instead of going into the store to clean up, she looks into the glove compartment for a "bleach pen". (Why?) In the glove box is the bloody nail! Faith deduces that the deputy is the orphan & killer! (Why would a deputy-killer leave evidence in her glove box?) We pan up to see the deputy drawing on Faith; ordering her to dump her phone.

We jump to the middle of a bridge with Deputy, Faith, & Chip standing together by Deputy's personal vehicle. (Why a bridge??? Why not a meaningful place like where the family was murdered or some other secluded place?)

Will & Captain track Faith's second phone. They block the ends of the bridge with squad cars; their lights flashing. Then walk up to the deputy-killer, surprising her!?!?!!! <- this is where I lost the will to continue watching.

I came back later... Deputy jumps off the bridge without killing the last murderer.

Off Course and Out of Touch

[chaplaindad · 2/10 · 5 March 2023]

The "Will Trent" series started out strong in the pilot. The characters are complex and interesting, especially the orphanage angle. The dynamics between Trent and his partner, and their relationship with the gruff but competant boss makes for good tv. Then, the show goes off the rails in this episode with a preachy, nonsensical plot, weird character interactions, cavernous plot holes, and a past family murder so woefully absent of motive that it rockets beyond the implausible into silliness. The identity of the present day murderer, the sheriff's deputy, is amazingly obvious from the start because it is amazingly obvious that this episode is not about a crime drama but about sending a message to viewers. The secondary plot line, two detectives who are former lovers, having dinner together with one's family, is neither interesting, or relevant. It's just plain odd and way out of place. As for this episode's main message, there is a point when people hear the same discussion so many times, that it becomes background noise at best, and drives people away due to cognitive fatigue at worst. Tragic for sure on all accounts because healthy dialogue regarding all forms of racism is need in the most effective venues and at the most effective pace, and because this crime drama had real promise...a promise now broken. Having advertised one thing, and then delivering something entirely out of sync smacks of bait-and-switch skullduggery and raises the question: is "Will Trent" worth the expenditure of our valuable time?

Inda strikes again.... out of touch with reality

[luckyintheorder · 2/10 · 18 February 2023]

I haven't read the source material from the author of the books but I've experience the TV writer on another series "the rookie" and to say she's sloppy, uniformed and offensive is putting it lightly.

So many details that are ridiculous and the constant use of black stereotypes to emphasis blackness is awful. Reminds me of the first Black Panther movie in it's triteness.

Lanier is about 30 miles from Atlanta, it's not "haunted", not sure why the GBI wouldn't just drive home in the same day... 30 miles. All the black women are fearful of all the bad white people despite all being officers of the law.

In the end, this is a POS and I will likely stop watching and never likely to read the source books either. Could have grown the Faith character, made it fun and interesting but choose stupid intersectional tropes that are meaningless and add nothing to story or characters. Makes them weak and ineffective.