High Potential: Full Season
April 10, 2025 1:09 PM - Season 1 (Full Season) - Subscribe
Written by Drew Goddard (The Good Place, The Martian) and starring Kaitlin Olson (IASIP), High Potential follows a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective. Also starring Daniel Sunjata and Judy Reyes. Based on the popular French series 'Haut Potentiel Intellectuel'.
Joyous, gorgeous, desperately needed trash TV. It’s Always Sunny’s Kaitlin Olson is incandescent as a police-department cleaner with an IQ of 160 whose crime-solving skills prove second to none. It’s such fun it should be showered with special awards - The Guardian
Sparky crime caper is America’s answer to Ludwig. Kaitlin Olson is terrific in Disney+’s new chaotically charming comedy about a cleaner with a knack for cracking impossible cases - The Telegraph
Kaitlin Olson Is Solidly Quirky in ABC’s Sufficient Cop Drama ‘High Potential’ - Variety
Joyous, gorgeous, desperately needed trash TV. It’s Always Sunny’s Kaitlin Olson is incandescent as a police-department cleaner with an IQ of 160 whose crime-solving skills prove second to none. It’s such fun it should be showered with special awards - The Guardian
Sparky crime caper is America’s answer to Ludwig. Kaitlin Olson is terrific in Disney+’s new chaotically charming comedy about a cleaner with a knack for cracking impossible cases - The Telegraph
Kaitlin Olson Is Solidly Quirky in ABC’s Sufficient Cop Drama ‘High Potential’ - Variety
I enjoyed the heck out of the series and agreed! Kaitlin Olson is great in the lead.
There's a touching B-arc of how the son is more like his mom than the daughter.
posted by porpoise at 3:37 PM on April 10 [1 favorite]
There's a touching B-arc of how the son is more like his mom than the daughter.
posted by porpoise at 3:37 PM on April 10 [1 favorite]
I tried the pilot hoping this would be a satire of shows like this, but it seemed to be playing it quite straight, starring Kaitlin Olson as Alexis Goodlooking, who is good-looking, and her special ability is being good at looking... for clues.
posted by 4th number at 7:11 PM on April 10
posted by 4th number at 7:11 PM on April 10
Oh lord, the Guardian made that joke already. Sorry.
posted by 4th number at 7:12 PM on April 10 [2 favorites]
posted by 4th number at 7:12 PM on April 10 [2 favorites]
I enjoyed Morgan's character, she's feisty and fun even in her struggles. Though "high potential" as a superpower is kinda weird, seems more like "busy brain, stays up all night watching YouTube and remembers what she saw." Morgan reminds me of me in that she's the most interesting person around and nobody else lives up to her spark. Wow, that sounds so narcissistic of me. I just mean that she's the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and everyone else is a normie. (Though I am not a MPDG, just a girl in interesting outfits who makes silly jokes.)
I do not get her babydaddy, who seems to just be there to be the babysitter. I can't picture these two as a couple ever, more of a "we decided to have 2 kids together so we can get some kids in in time" temporary pairing if anything. Dude has no personality, why would she go for that?
I also do not find Karadec interesting and I just don't have any interest in their inevitable romantic pairing. I don't enjoy stoic boring men. Girl deserves better.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:14 PM on April 10 [1 favorite]
I do not get her babydaddy, who seems to just be there to be the babysitter. I can't picture these two as a couple ever, more of a "we decided to have 2 kids together so we can get some kids in in time" temporary pairing if anything. Dude has no personality, why would she go for that?
I also do not find Karadec interesting and I just don't have any interest in their inevitable romantic pairing. I don't enjoy stoic boring men. Girl deserves better.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:14 PM on April 10 [1 favorite]
Yeah, was disappointed with the janitor cum nurse (Tom?) who moved - "not that so far away" near the end.
posted by porpoise at 9:20 PM on April 10
posted by porpoise at 9:20 PM on April 10
Skip the 7th episode, it is completely ridiculous and the distracting camera movements are lifted from Psych by the episode's director.... the guy who played the lead on Psych.
posted by axiom at 9:26 PM on April 10
posted by axiom at 9:26 PM on April 10
A counter to skipping anything, try The Mick! with Kaitlin Olson!
Classic Olsen, and great performances by Sofia Black-D'Elia, Carla Jimenez.
posted by porpoise at 12:52 AM on April 11 [1 favorite]
Classic Olsen, and great performances by Sofia Black-D'Elia, Carla Jimenez.
posted by porpoise at 12:52 AM on April 11 [1 favorite]
I've watched the first season and part of the second season of the French version, and only the first episode of this version. It was a very faithful remake, which means I knew the resolution to the mystery. Does anyone know if the mysteries start differing from the French version?
posted by amarynth at 10:41 AM on April 11
posted by amarynth at 10:41 AM on April 11
This was perfectly pleasant turn my brain off and enjoy television and I looked forward to it every week. During these times, it's nice to have a show where everyone is trying to do the right thing (aside from the guilty person) and conflict is fairly gentle and mostly just about misunderstandings.
My one gripe is that Judy Reyes was criminally underused. She seemed stuck with a lot of exposition-heavy dialogue that meant her character never really developed. Reyes was so fun in Scrubs, but here her job is to look very serious and tell the audience what they need to know.
posted by nangua at 3:48 PM on April 11
My one gripe is that Judy Reyes was criminally underused. She seemed stuck with a lot of exposition-heavy dialogue that meant her character never really developed. Reyes was so fun in Scrubs, but here her job is to look very serious and tell the audience what they need to know.
posted by nangua at 3:48 PM on April 11
We went through a big Monk binge last year, which was mostly fun but eventually tiresome. This is similar but fun again! My wife and I looked at each other I said "she's like the opposite of Monk," and she corrected me: "she's like they made Monk and his assistant one person."
posted by rikschell at 4:50 AM on April 13 [1 favorite]
posted by rikschell at 4:50 AM on April 13 [1 favorite]
jenfullmoon: "I just don't have any interest in their inevitable romantic pairing"
They're not going to hook up, she has the maintenance guy. Yes, he has moved away, but that just makes for more pining.
I'm happy to see Judy Reyes again. It does fall into the trope of one police detective doing every single job from taking witness statements, to chasing down a bad guy, handcuffing and reading the rights, breaking in to save a hostage, and interrogating a suspect in custody.
posted by soelo at 9:27 AM on April 15
They're not going to hook up, she has the maintenance guy. Yes, he has moved away, but that just makes for more pining.
I'm happy to see Judy Reyes again. It does fall into the trope of one police detective doing every single job from taking witness statements, to chasing down a bad guy, handcuffing and reading the rights, breaking in to save a hostage, and interrogating a suspect in custody.
posted by soelo at 9:27 AM on April 15
We love Kaitlin Olson ("go see it" to The Mick as well) but don't really do police procedurals, but we were pleasantly surprised by this show. I expected the janitor to have some sort of nefarious "twist" - he was somehow a villain or something - but, nope, just a innocuous arc. Some of the paths to catching the criminals are pretty hand-wavey but still entertaining.
Probably the only real complaint we experienced was that , about halfway through the season, they started going into every commercial break with the characters standing in positions, not saying anything, staring off into space, for like 10 seconds. Stop doing weird things like that, TV.
posted by AzraelBrown at 8:14 AM on April 16
Probably the only real complaint we experienced was that , about halfway through the season, they started going into every commercial break with the characters standing in positions, not saying anything, staring off into space, for like 10 seconds. Stop doing weird things like that, TV.
posted by AzraelBrown at 8:14 AM on April 16
I quite liked this. In the "magical crimesolver procedural" genre so popular these days (and which I generally like!) I'd call it somewhere between Elsbeth and Will Trent.
posted by rhizome at 5:07 PM on April 23
posted by rhizome at 5:07 PM on April 23
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