Together with a slew of different reveals popping up throughout the 2025 TV schedule, ABC’s procedural dramedy Excessive Potential is returning quickly with new episodes, and now we all know precisely what audiences can count on when Kaitlin Olson is lastly again on our TVs. Okay, perhaps not precisely, because it’s onerous to know straight away whether or not or not the midseason premiere sounds extra thrilling or worrisome.
All issues thought of, I’ve religion that showrunner Todd Harthan & Co. will preserve Olson’s Morgan from coping with something too emotionally debilitating in its first season, however the subsequent episode’s description may be learn with sufficient variance in tone that it’s not fully clear what she’s in for. Try the logline from ABC under:
A well-known baseball newscaster is murdered, and the crew is on the case. In the meantime, Soto and Morgan meet with a possible result in talk about Roman’s disappearance, and Tom has some private information to share with Morgan.
At the start: this synopsis is undoubtedly unhealthy information for the well-known baseball newscaster. There’s not even a query about what occurred to that character, as they’ve straight up been murdered. Our condolences and whatnot.
Extra vital is Morgan and Soto’s subsequent step, which ends up in the next psychological break up:
- Why It May Be Worrisome: The synopsis particularly refers back to the individual Soto and Morgan meet with as a “potential” lead regarding the disappearance of the latter’s first hubby Roman. I suppose it would not be very mysterious if the outline confirmed it as a definitively optimistic lead, however I am nonetheless skeptical to purchase in already.
- Why It May Be Thrilling: If Morgan and the Main Crimes boss truly do get a professional lead out of this individual, that will mark one of many first massive steps ahead within the case, little question with quite a bit nonetheless left to determine, relying on what data could possibly be shared. I’ve to think about the writers are planning to maintain this story going for extra than simply this primary ten-episode season, nevertheless it’s attainable Roman’s destiny will probably be revealed by the tip of the Season 1 finale.
Clearly that is not the one element talked about that is value placing additional thought into. The opposite bit issues the workplace custodian character portrayed by Mayans M.C. vet JD Pardo, and can also be results in a two-pronged response.
- Why It May Be Worrisome: What number of occasions has a TV present teased a personality’s “private information” and it ended up being one thing actually cool and optimistic, like innate superpowers or possession of a profitable lottery ticket? Proper subsequent to by no means, I would say. So the pessimist in me can solely assume that Pardo’s Tom will reveal that his estranged spouse and little one have appeared out of the blue, they usually want him to maneuver again to their former residence positioned roughly 2,000 miles away from wherever Morgan is at any given second. Or, much less particularly, that he’ll want to go away, since I do not imagine the actor was initially forged in a sequence common capability.
- Why It May Be Thrilling: For all that the above fear is perhaps justifiable from a TV trope perspective, a giant a part of what I really like about Excessive Potential is the way it avoids style tropes. One such trope could be a office romance, true, however I might love to see Morgan and Tom kindling the sparks that developed between them in previous episodes, versus her hooking up with Karadec, which appears inevitable at this level anyway, however hopefully after an extended stretch. On this state of affairs, I envision Tom’s private information being, “I can not cease interested by you,” after which a saxophone riff blares, however like an aesthetic one. The classiest one, even.
Whichever means it goes, I can not wait to get extra of Olson’s A+ performances in my life alongside everybody else in Excessive Potential‘s spectacular ensemble. And judging by the high-end scores the primary half of Season 1 earned, I’m removed from alone.
Whereas ready for its return beginning January 7, Excessive Potential‘s previous episodes may be streamed with a Hulu subscription.