Good morning, in a little late, but as always, in before midnight on post day counts as being on time.
Will Trent Season Three Episode One "I'm A Guest Here"
This week I watched the Season Three opener of ABC's Will Trent. He's very smart, but has always suffered with Dyslexia, something he used to try to hide. He would use a little voice recorder to note his keen on the scene observations, then use the playback of those recordings to help solve the case. He rarely misses visual or auditory clues. He's still using it at a crime scene this episode.
Now he has an app he calls Eduardo that does his reading of menus and everything else to let him know what written clues he has to work with.
His anchor in the world is his little chihuahua Betty. Betty is very smart as all chihuahuas are. Also, Betty dresses better than any dog ever.
Will himself usually dresses immaculately in a suit and tie, his armor against the world who might judge him for his dyslexia and his rough past as a maltreated orphan.
This season, he's been hiding out with Betty in Soddy-Daisy Tennessee, working on getting dicey pics for divorce cases. How many can there be? He's drawn back by the execution death of a fellow officer, which in theory was ordered by an old friend from Will's foster care days, who Will thinks is innocent after they beat each other up as a greeting.
Officer Ormer is featured quite a bit, a fellow I never liked, but he is being softened up a bit by his divorce. Angie, arrested by Will at the end of season 2 is working security in a posh community, with tasks such as having dog poo analyzed to see who did the nasty in front of a wealthy woman's house on her docket.
Lots of twists and turns as Will reluctantly gets involved to clear his friend and bring the killers to justice. I binge watched the first two seasons, so being in "real time" TV watching mode is hard, as you've got to wait a whole week to find out what happens next. 18 episodes for this season, which seems huge when you've become used to streaming series with ten episodes at the most.
Missing You Netflix
Based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, Detective Kat Donovan is led down a labyrinthine path when she jokingly agrees to use an account on a dating app and sees a profile of the fiancee who disappeared eleven years ago, the day after her beloved father died.
Also bringing her back to investigating her cop father's death, is the fact that his killer is dying in prison of cancer and likely only has a few days to live. She's determined to find out what really happened to her dad, and she's certain he will tell her the truth at the last.
Further complicating her life is a tech savvy young man named Brendan who is hugely attached to his mom, and who insists that his mom has run afoul in her new relationship via a dating app. He hasn't heard from her, has requested she be listed as missing, but he gets no help till he shows Kat a picture of the man from the app...it's long lost Josh, the fiancee who disappeared eleven years ago.
There's a ton packed into each of the five episodes. Kat is a warm, loving character, but also a sharp, tough detective who stops at nothing to solve a case.
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