‘Will Trent’ Doesn’t Know What To Do With Angie

Editor’s Notice: The next accommodates spoilers for Will Trent Season 3.Season 2 of the hit ABC collection Will Trent ended with an atomic bombshell. The finale concluded on a downer word, with the collection protagonist, Georgia Bureau of Investigations Particular Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez), arresting his girlfriend, Detective Angie Polaski (Erika Christensen), after realizing that she coated up the homicide of Lenny Broussard (French Stewart) within the first season. The season ends with Angie’s life at all-time low, her profession in tatters, and the disintegration of her relationship with Will. Will packed his baggage and left city with out telling his mates and colleagues the place he was going. The best way the collection resolved its conflict with Angie’s arrest and picked issues up in Season 3 signifies that the writers don’t know what to do with Angie.

‘Will Trent’ Clumsily Resolved the Situation of Angie’s Arrest

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The collection in the end resolves the issue of Angie’s arrest for masking up Crystal’s (Chapel Oaks) homicide of Lenny within the clumsiest approach doable. Angie’s actions not directly led to Crystal turning into a serial killer who murdered 4 different people. How can Angie come again from such an occasion? The Season 3 premiere, “I’m a Visitor Right here,” picks up six months after the Season 2 finale. Angie is now not with the Atlanta Police Division, however she’s not in jail both, working in a low-level job as a safety guard for a gated group. Later within the episode, we study why Angie is not behind bars when she says to Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin), “To be honest, they had been this near hanging a felony on me. Thank god for that choose.” Ormewood replies, “Yeah, effectively, you deserve that deal. We want you.”

The bombshell ending of the Season 2 finale is nearly fully undone in one foolish lampshade of a dialogue trade. Resolving Angie’s arrest and felony fees of aiding and abetting a homicide fully off-screen is deeply unsatisfying. Moreover, by Season 3’s third episode, “Discover a New Pond,” Angela will get reinstated to the Atlanta P.D., and he or she will get her previous job again as if nothing occurred, haphazardly restoring the established order from the start of the collection in a slipshod method. Maybe there was a logical option to pull off Angie’s reinstatement, however resolving her issues off-screen and hand-waving them away with flimsy dialogue doesn’t work. It is illogical for Angie to return to her previous job on the Atlanta P.D. If the present depicted Angie’s acquittal for her felony fees, at the least viewers would have benefitted from seeing how the attorneys and choose got here to that call. The best way it performs out off-screen within the present comes off as a messy cop-out.

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Angie Punishes Will for Her Personal Errors

In Will Trent Season 3’s latest episode, “The Ground Is Lava,” Angie and Will share a tense reunion for the primary time this season. Issues don’t go effectively when Will tries to have a private speak together with her later within the episode, and Angie screams, “You blew up our life!” Angie additionally resents Will for arresting her in entrance of her colleagues. The truth that Angie blames Will for upholding his moral code proves she has no regret about the occasions within the first two seasons. Moreover, the APD’s board was incorrect to reinstate Angie’s detective place with the division as a result of it is seemingly she would repeat her previous errors.

Moreover, Angie performing like Will was within the incorrect symbolizes how Angie continues accountable others for the issues she triggered. She has but to take any duty for her crimes, and reinstating her permits her to stay off the hook. The best way Angie treats Will in “The Ground Is Lava” completely showcases why they do not belong collectively. On the finish of the day, Will and Angie shared a toxic, co-dependent relationship, the place they bonded by means of their shared trauma as abused foster youngsters. As teenagers, they sought solace by means of each other to endure a horrible ordeal. Nonetheless, as adults, they proceed carrying their childhood trauma, making a chaotic and unhealthy relationship. The best way the collection depicts Angie’s lack of regret, reflection, and self-awareness of her personal actions makes her extraordinarily unlikable. Her yelling at Will and blaming him for the arrest is the icing on high of that poisonous relationship cake.

The Means Ahead for Angie Polaski on ‘Will Trent’

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Finally, even when the writers search to restore and enhance Angie’s picture, there ought to be no going again for Will and Angie. Nothing good has ever come out of their relationship, and it by no means will. Angie should transfer on from Will to make any progress and take management of her life, and it might be finest for Will to maneuver on as effectively. Moreover, it might be becoming for Angie to make amends, cease blaming Will for upholding his integrity, and at the least apologize to Will for her previous errors.

New episodes of Will Trent Season 3 debut on Tuesday on ABC. Each episode of the collection can also be out there to stream now on Hulu.