Will Trent Season 3 will return on January 7, 2025, and it will be the most dramatic season yet.
Will Trent season 2 ended with some major cliffhangers, and it looks like season 3 will feature another time jump to address the long break between seasons.
The show’s core cast and characters were essentially the same throughout the first two seasons. Two new characters have been added to change the relationship dynamics.
Revealing Will Trent’s Mindset
These long pauses had such an impact on prime time that time jumps were written into the scripts.
At the end of Will Trent season 2, Will disappeared, and Amanda and Faith haven’t heard from him since.
Initially, viewers thought he had left town due to a heartbreaking breakup, but now he may be going undercover again.
The latest promo shows Amanda must lure Will back home with a critical case that affects people he knows.
Will has been alone for a while. Now is not the best time to get him friendly with new people. He needed some time to decompress with Betty before diving back in.
Of course, the real world is not like this and he needs to save people. Marion Alba (Gina Rodriguez) is part of the new team. He just met her at the wrong time.
The addition of two new characters makes an already complicated situation even more complicated.
As much as I love Gina Rodriguez and was excited to see her play a lawyer, I expected her character Marion Alba to receive some backlash.
Fans of Angie and Will are still heartbroken over their couple’s split and are hoping for a reconciliation. They wouldn’t be excited about seeing Will with another woman so soon.
However, diehards in the book want the show to star Sarah Linton after Angie and Will split. Instead, they bring in a feisty, beautiful lawyer to confront Will.
She is in trouble. On set, Gina Rodriguez seemed to have become good friends with her co-workers and gelled closely with the cast.
It will be interesting to see how Marion and Will work together on screen. He didn’t often enjoy working with other people, and it took him a long time to get used to working with Faith.
Judging from the promotional video, Marion looks very interesting, low-key and flexible. Will, on the other hand, likes to follow routine, partly due to his neurodivergence, OCD, and dyslexia.
Then, Dr. Seth MacDell (Scott Foley) becomes Angie’s new love interest. She likely met him while working on the case, as he was the head of the local hospital’s emergency department.
It’s almost like a rehash of Will Trent’s first season when Faith met her doctor and potential love interest when she was diagnosed with diabetes.
Hopefully the series will do a better job of introducing Dr. McDair and integrating him into Angie’s life. I never thought Angie would be with the Doctor, but maybe he’d be laid back enough to appreciate her ferocity and quirkiness.
She deserves a chance to be happy after everything that’s happened, although I fully expected there to be chaos when the two new couples meet for the first time.
How will Angie’s freedom change things with Will and the GBI?
The latest Will Trent promo teases Angie working with agents. Ormwood again. This could mean that Angie was given a light sentence and has already served time during the time jump, or that she was found not guilty.
Quite possibly the second person since the convicted felon who won’t become a detective. While it’s disappointing that the show has transcended the plot, it makes sense that season three begins in a fresh new direction.
Erica Christensen could have made for a darker Angie, so hopefully there will be some flashbacks later and this isn’t completely glossed over.
Angie and Michael are always a delightful, dynamic duo. However, now that Will has arrested Angie and ultimately destroyed their relationship, what will happen to the joint case with the GBI?
Angie and Will have known each other since childhood. Even if they’re not dating, they support each other. But this kind of betrayal hurts and could hinder collective cases and those entertainment scenes we’ve become accustomed to.
I suspect APD and GBI will operate separately at first. If Amanda and Faith side with Will and Ormwood, and the rest of the APD side with Angie, things could get messy.
It’s been really frustrating since Amanda asked Angie to join the GBI and they made so much progress on Will Trent season 2.
Marion will initially assist the GBI with Atlanta gang cases, where she will become a member of the GBI team. Hopefully she will help out with APD in the future and we can see her in scenes with the rest of the cast.
Maybe, later in the season, Angie and Will can reconcile and become friends or swingers again.
Will Trent Season 3 could change everything, developing a romantic quad and some interesting cases. We can’t wait!
Over to you, Will Trent fanatic. Do you think the new characters will bring change and add drama?
Will Trent returns to ABC on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 8/7c. You can binge-watch the first two seasons on Hulu.
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