A special agent who grew up in Atlanta's foster care system now solves cases with the city's highest clearance rate — that premise drives Will Trent, a 2023 American crime drama.
What is Will Trent about?
The series centers on Will Trent, a special agent abandoned at birth who came of age inside an overburdened foster care system in Atlanta. That background shapes how he works: determined that no one under his watch should feel as unseen as he once did, he has built a reputation for closing cases other investigators struggle to crack. Ramón Rodríguez leads the cast as Trent, with Erika Christensen, Iantha Richardson, Jake McLaughlin and Sonja Sohn rounding out the team around him. Episodes run about forty-five minutes and mix case-of-the-week investigations with the ongoing story of Trent's past catching up with his present.
About the cast
Ramón Rodríguez anchors the series as Will Trent, joined by Erika Christensen, Iantha Richardson, Jake McLaughlin and Sonja Sohn as the colleagues and partners who make up his investigative circle.
Context & significance
Directed by Paul McGuigan and produced in the United States, Will Trent premiered in 2023 as part of the current run of case-driven crime dramas built around a single investigator's personal history. Its Atlanta setting and foster-care backstory give it a different entry point than the procedural formula alone, using Trent's past as the throughline connecting otherwise self-contained cases. Each roughly forty-five-minute episode balances a self-contained investigation with small updates to that larger arc, a structure that keeps the show approachable for viewers who miss an episode while still rewarding those following the season closely.
Watching Will Trent on Ktime
Will Trent streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the show's case-of-the-week structure is easy to follow for Farsi-speaking viewers in either format. Watching the series requires a free K-Time account login, while its page is open to read without one. K-Time's Farsi-first platform is built for Persian-speaking audiences who want crime dramas like this available in their own language, without waiting on delayed subtitle releases elsewhere.