On Excessive Potential, Morgan Gillory isn’t only a sensible crime-solving investigator with a unusual trend sense and an IQ of 160. She is in the beginning a mom. It’s a key side of the character that actress Kaitlin Olson hopes followers will take into account because the present heads into Season 2.
In a latest interview with Deadline, Olson shared that considered one of Morgan’s most relatable traits is her effort to do her finest as a mother, and it’s that fixed striving that helped her join with the character. Nevertheless it additionally created one of many present’s most riveting mysteries.
Morgan’s parenting struggles have turn out to be a key ingredient of the drama on Excessive Potential, with the thriller surrounding the disappearance of Ava’s (Amirah J) father, Roman, taking up a extra central function. Based on Morgan, Roman went out for diapers 15 years in the past and by no means got here again. However by the tip of Season 1, it’s revealed that Roman might not be as useless as everybody believed, as proof strongly suggests he was working as an FBI informant. The season ends on a cliffhanger, because it seems Roman has been efficiently positioned.
With followers on the sting of their seat, audiences can anticipate to return again to the thriller of Roman’s whereabouts in Season 2. Even Olson is entangled within the unanswered questions surrounding Morgan’s first husband.
“I wish to know what’s happening with Ava’s dad. There’s a whole lot of stuff, I wish to do all of it,” mentioned Olson.
Olson explains that the thriller surrounding Roman offers the present a possibility to delve deeper into the lives of different characters, exploring how his disappearance (and doable return) would possibly influence these he left behind, together with new dynamics just like the budding relationship between Morgan and Adam Karadec (Daniel Sunjata). She famous that Season 1 didn’t supply as a lot time to discover the characters as she would have favored.
“I feel it’s necessary to dive deeper into the opposite characters on the present. We didn’t have the chance to do this as a lot as I feel we must always, and so we’re going to positively be digging in there, too,” mentioned Olson.
Olson has additionally said that as a part of Season 2, she additionally needs to discover how Morgan’s “presents” should not essentially blessings. Whereas her excessive IQ is useful, it has a method of isolating her from making buddies and connections, and in Season 2, a whole lot of Morgan’s development can be about failing and studying, and never nearly her successes.
“Within the pilot, she’s obtained that great speech with [Selena] Soto [Judy Reyes] the place Soto says she has a present and he or she’s like, it’s not a present, and names all of the the reason why. As in any first season of tv, you’re making an attempt to determine the whole lot out, and searching again, I obtained a whole lot of suggestions from individuals simply loving that a part of it,” mentioned Olson.
“I positively wish to do extra of that, and I additionally need her to make errors, like I mentioned earlier than. It’s not enjoyable to look at any person simply hit it out of the park each single time, it’s going to get boring,” she added.
Excessive Potential, Season 2 Premiere, Fall 2025, ABC