Review of the season two with high potential – a comfortable and comforting cop show with a practically perfect detective | Television and radio
WIs it sick that we are still annoyed by the scientist’s scientist? I do not suspect – the satisfaction of attending a fantastically endowed person of absurdly complex crack is one of the most reliable prints in fiction. As always, our screens teeming with them: in the past year, we were presented in Ludwig, the David Mitchell puzzle sector has become an incredibly clever (so reluctant) detective; been found with the human lie detector of Natasha Lyonne Charlie holds in the face of poker; And crossed once again with the lawyer for Brainiac Elsbeth, whose forays into the police are told in the spin-off of the same name.
Morgan Gillory, the protagonist of the great procedural potential also has again for mental gymnastics, which returns for a second season. With an IQ of 160 – giving it a “high intellectual potential” (Mensa generally requires a score of around 130) – Morgan’s ability to disentangle sequences of complex events in the same. However, there is something a little different about this crimetopper of intelligent fences in particular. From an anti-social drug addict called Sherlock Holmes has set the tone of detective genius, these characters have generally had some problems. Ludwig is reclusive, his talents tempered by intense clumsiness. Cale is a chaotic and partial phobic outsider to a drink or two, while they are a crazy filter which gives people the goosebumps.
Morgan – Played by Kaitlin Olson (it is always sunny in Philadelphia, Hacks) – has no comparable weaknesses. When we meet her for the first time, she works as a cleaner in the LAPD offices. After accidentally overthrowing a bunch of investigation notes and spotted serious mistakes, she leaves a clue behind to point the officers in the right direction. Soon, she recruited to work alongside the police, where she duly resolves a series of labyrinthine crimes extraordinarily without help. Morgan is not only exceptionally intelligent, she is also a fearless, charismatic, glamorous and magnificent Go-Star with flawless instincts and emotional intelligence outside the charts. She can be a bit Sometimes priced, but now she is saving lives and catching killers, a little emergency is not exactly inappropriate.
If Morgan is practically perfect from all points of view, the same cannot be said for his life – at least, at least. A single mother of three children, she finds it difficult to reach both ends and mainly uses her palace Mind to get the most out of her coupon -assisted supermarket store. Maternity can, of course, hinder the professional life of women, but Morgan’s desire to endure requests and the payment of a job at minimum wages does not sound completely. Likewise difficult to buy is the longest narrative thread in the series: underlying all of his disparate cases is Morgan’s determination to find the father of his older child, who disappeared without trace 15 years ago. Despite her incredible deduction powers, she does not have the most misty idea where he is.
But high potential is not too concerned about realism. Made by ABC in the United States, it is a smooth narcotic network television. It’s pleasant and easy on the eyes, the kind of thing you traditionally associate with ITV than BBC Two. The new colleagues of Morgan are uniformly nice two-dimensional guys: the detective Suave Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), the investigators Daphne and Oz, as well as the LT Selena Soto (Judy Reyes de Scouds), perhaps the most reasonable and the least rewarding police chief of the history of the copy. No anti-hero, no edge: the atmosphere is comfortable and comforting and rather basic.
Obviously, crimes are not comfortable, comforting or basic. The final of season 1 saw Morgan narrated by a kidnapper who forced him to solve ridiculously difficult puzzles to save the life of his victims. He returns to the double opening bill here, removing a young mother on the way back of an evening – but his real target is clearly Morgan, whom he considers a worthy opponent in his real chess game. Watching her get closer to this man is tense and fascinating, but something that requires a waterproof end. The question is: is the high potential as intelligent as its protagonist?
In a word, no. The show is very good to maintain the suspense, but it cannot quite stick the landing, and the scenario ends with an absurd stake. However, there is always next time. (In fact, Morgan’s subsequent case – although just as bananas – is better thought out, ending with a careful and surprisingly moving point.) The quality of the conspiracy can be a little incoherent, but like its many predecessors and peers, this virtual citizen detective can always be invoked to save the day.
