Post Holiday Blues Streaming 25' - High Potential - Season One

High Potential is one of (very few) breakthrough network TV hits of the past season.

However the American crime/drama series from Drew Goddard, is actually based on the 2021 French and Belgian television series HPI.

The series airs on ABC in the USA and Disney+ here in Australia.

Starring Kaitlin Olson as Morgan Gillory, an intellectually gifted cleaning woman who becomes a police consultant. Also starring are Daniel Sunjata as Morgan's partner Adam Karadec and Judy Reyes as Selena Soto, the head of their department. 

High Potential started back last September, however I think this was one of the series Disney+ held back till more episodes had aired. The in January, the series was renewed for a second season. One of the earliest renewals for the next TV. Which following CBS last week, the other networks will announce their plans for 2025-2026.

High Potential centres on Morgan (Olson), a single mother with three children who works as a cleaning lady for the Los Angeles Police Department. She is also a high potential intellectual, with an IQ of 160. After solving a case using her unconventional mind, she becomes a consultant for the LAPD's Major Crimes division, where she is paired with no-nonsense detective Adam Karadec (Sunjata).

A subplot involves Morgan using the LAPD's help and resources to find out what happened to her first husband, Roman, the father of her older daughter Ava, who disappeared 15 years earlier when Ava was a baby.

In the 13th episode, things heat up. If you are not up to date on this sleeper Disney+/ABC hit, don't read on!

A psychopath kidnaps people from a grief counselling group, including Oz, and wants the LAPD to "play" with him, using various games as clues to the victims' locations. Meanwhile, Conforth returns, and tells Morgan that he only plans on working directly with her, not the LAPD. Morgan accepts the terms, but Karadec wants to be the one who talks to Conforth. 

Conforth tells Morgan that before he disappeared, he was working for a woman named Lyla. Karadec, using Ronnie's connections, learns that Lyla was an FBI agent who died around the time Roman disappeared, and had Roman working for her as an informant.

Conforth calls for Morgan to meet him at a hotel for some info, but Karadec goes instead. Conforth is hesitant to trust him, but gives Karadec the information. Meanwhile, Morgan is getting groceries with her kids, and a stranger helps her. 

When she gets home, she finds a message from the kidnapper, and Morgan realises that the kidnapper was the stranger she met earlier. Morgan then gets a call from Karadec, who tells her that he knows Roman's location.

It sets up season two really well, with a few wee cliffhangers.

I started this on a flight back from Japan, then gradually an episode or so a week, I concluded the hit new series last week.

I do hope Disney+ stream this week to week when it lands either later this year or early next.

Until then I will give my thoughts on the Amazon horror/Blumhouse series, The Bondsman next, while Found finishes for good, Power's prequel series revolving around Kanan Stark concludes for another season and Doctor Odyssey may air it's final episode on Disney+ Saturday morning.