Will Trent Season 2 Episode 3 Review: You Don’t Have To Understand

The things that haunt us take center stage. Will Trent Season 2 Episode 3 “You Don’t Have to Understand” explores Will’s negative feelings towards religion. He doesn’t change his position on it.

However, he starts to see that not everyone has malice in their heart and bad intentions. The sophomore season seems to want to explore a season-long arc for Will. The first season introduces us to him, the crew, and their various personal and emotional issues.

Will Trent Season 2 may focus on the healing process for several of our main characters.

RAMîN RODRêGUEZ, IANTHA RICHARDSON — WILL TRENT – ” You Don’t Have to Understand” RAMoN RODRêGUEZ, IANTHA RICHARDSON (Disney/Daniel Delgado)

Mike, Angie, and Will each seem at the start of their personal self-improvement and healing journeys. However, Will’s journey could be the most compelling. He isn’t just recovering from long-term emotional pain, scars, and turmoil but he has new wounds.

The murder of his mother and father being a potential serial killer are all new pain. Now, he has the trauma of losing Cricket. She was someone who he was willing to take a chance and explore something new with. Will has a hard time letting new people into his life, so this was a big move for him.

She is taken from him before anything can happen with their potential romance. However, they manage to bond in their short time together.

It’s beautiful, which makes her untimely death so sad.

He has the additional trauma of witnessing her death. Plus, he probably blames himself, in some way, for not figuring out how to prevent it.

WILL TRENT – “You Don’t Have to Understand.” JEROD HAYNES (Disney/Daniel Delgado)

It’s smart of Will Trent to use Season 2 to focus even more on Will’s scars and learning to cope and heal them. Season 1 shows some of them, but it felt more like Angie’s pain, issues, and scars took more of the forefront.

Will bury his easier. The original season also needed to prove that Will is a great detective.

This second season wants to show both: the brilliant detective and the man with many scars. It’s also appreciated that episode 3 doesn’t stray away from continuing the storylines presented in the first two episodes.

This may make Season 2 a more cohesive season than the first.

Despite the very serious issues and tone, “You Don’t Have to Understand” marks a return to Will Trent’s fun wit.

WILL TRENT – “You Don’t Have to Understand.” WILL ROTHHAAR, JAKE MCLAUGHLIN, ERIKA CHRISTENSEN(Disney/Daniel Delgado)

Will Trent Season 2 Episode 1, “Me Llamo Will Trent“ and Will Trent Season 2 Episode 2, “It’s the Work I Signed Up For” have plenty of comedy. However, episode 3 feels tonally like the show we have come to love and expect.

There are so many funny moments, including the birth scene and Mike and Angie’s entire scenes with Pete.

Speaking of Angie and Mike. They may be the funniest duo. Amanda and Will may be the most sweet. She really has taken her motherly role towards him well.

The opening scenes with her yelling at him for being late and a seemingly bad influence on Faith feel so motherly and hilarious. It’s especially funny because Will feels like a kid in that moment in his utter excitement. Therefore, Amanda scolding him feels even more perfect.

Then “You Don’t Have to Understand” closes on a nice moment between them. It continues to help tie their mother-son dynamic.

She provides comfort and support by not pushing him to open up but by just sitting next to him. It’s a small moment that means so much.

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Will Trent airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC.

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