Hey, guys. My sister told me about a new series called Will Trent. I really like it...

[Demsrule86]

I watched it on HULU (shown the day after ABC network TV). It is excellent...we binged I think seven episodes-hubs and me.

[RoadRunner]

1. I like it, especially Betty.

It’s getting a 2nd season I just read.

[Demsrule86]

8. I love Betty!

[Murphyb849]

2. I LOVE this show and Betty is my spirit animal 😍

[Demsrule86]

9. She is awesome...show is getting a second season.

[kimbutgar]

3. I watched the first episode and got hooked

After about 5 episodes in, I asked my husband to watch it and he got hooked. Now I can’t watch it without him!

[Demsrule86]

10. I watched the first episode and then watched it again with husband and now we wait for it!

We binged all available shows...

[emulatorloo]

4. The Will Trent books by Karen Slaughter are my favorite police procedurals. The characters are

so real, flawed, intense, interesting and complex. Intense relationships and great plots.

Have only seen one episode so far but I like it.

[Demsrule86]

11. I didn't realize they were books. I am taking them out of the library.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

16. Have you read the Bosch series?

Just wondering if you have a comparison. I teach HS English and my teacher/best friend loves Slaughter (she teaches mystery lit).

[emulatorloo]

17. I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation!

[Cuthbert Allgood]

18. I love it. The show is great, too.

Bosch lives in the world of Lincoln Lawyer (Connelly wrote both).

I will for sure read the Will Trent stuff (or my bestie will be on my ass), but just wondering about a comparison.

[MLAA]

5. Love it.

Also love The Diplomat (And the Americans if you haven’t already see it). I hadn’t gotten around to Ted Lasso until recently and it is my favorite series, by far, in years!

[Demsrule86]

12. Thanks for the suggestions...always looking for good shows.

[Scrivener7]

6. I like it too. He's a great character, as is his girlfriend.

Another show which I am liking, also an ABC show on Hulu, and I cannot for the life of me tell you why I like it, is Not Dead Yet.

[Demsrule86]

13. Yes...will watch not dead yet...always interested in what others are watching.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Another big "I love it!"

[Demsrule86]

14. I love it! I am hoping the last show is not the season finale...real cliff hanger.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. LOL! Agreed. They had better let them give us some answers.

[nuxvomica]

19. I really enjoyed it

I love good detective procedurals, like Monk and Psyche, and the excellent Peacock series Poker Face. These series usually have a protagonist with a special crime-solving talent (usually "a blessing and a curse" ) like Adrian Monk's OCD and Shawn Spencer's childhood training by his cop dad, but Will Trent's is especially interesting: having grown up in the foster care system, he can tell when things and people are not quite right, and takes careful inventory of his surroundings, something he had to do to survive a series of abusive foster parents. This history is also the reason he adopts Betty, a murder victim's adorable chihuahua, and while watching each episode I'm more concerned Betty is safe than that the crime is solved.