On Excessive Potential, Morgan Gillory isn’t only a good crime-solving investigator with a unusual style sense and an IQ of 160. She is at the beginning a mom. It’s a key side of the character that actress Kaitlin Olson hopes followers will remember because the present heads into Season 2.
In a current interview with Deadline, Olson shared that certainly one of Morgan’s most relatable traits is her effort to do her greatest as a mother, and it’s that fixed striving that helped her join with the character. But it surely additionally created one of many present’s most riveting mysteries.
Morgan’s parenting struggles have turn out to be a key aspect of the drama on Excessive Potential, with the thriller surrounding the disappearance of Ava’s (Amirah J) father, Roman, taking over a extra central function. In accordance with Morgan, Roman went out for diapers 15 years in the past and by no means got here again. However by the top of Season 1, it’s revealed that Roman will not be as lifeless 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 count on to come back 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 occurring with Ava’s dad. There’s loads 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 attainable return) would possibly impression 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 appreciated.
“I believe it’s vital to dive deeper into the opposite characters on the present. We didn’t have the chance to try this as a lot as I believe we must always, and so we’re going to positively be digging in there, too,” mentioned Olson.
Olson has additionally acknowledged that as a part of Season 2, she additionally desires to discover how Morgan’s “presents” will not be essentially blessings. Whereas her excessive IQ is useful, it has a manner of isolating her from making pals and connections, and in Season 2, loads of Morgan’s development might be about failing and studying, and never nearly her successes.
“Within the pilot, she’s acquired that fantastic 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 attempting to determine every little thing out, and looking out again, I acquired loads of suggestions from folks 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 observe any individual 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