There’s an entire lotta shakin’ happening when Excessive Potential returns for its second season subsequent week. Not solely is our resident genius-IQ advisor Morgan Gillory (the all the time Emmy-worthy Kaitlin Olson) hellbent on defending her children from final season’s finale menace from the homicidal Recreation Maker answerable for a collection of kidnappings, however she’s additionally about to threat her fame with the LAPD to show that the artful Matthew Clark (David Giuntoli) is the person(iac) they’re searching for.
“The push-off in our premiere that launches you into the second a part of our [story] goes to have Morgan actually going head-to-head with one of many smarter, extra intelligent criminals that we’ve seen her go up in opposition to in the present day,” units up showrunner Todd Harthan. Fortunately, she goes have extra than simply her traditional suspects of allies as backup this time: Early within the season, Morgan’s LAPD friends — accomplice, Det. Adam Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), Lt. Selena Soto (Judy Reyes), and Karadec’s fellow detectives Lev “Oz” Ozdil (Deniz Akdeniz) and Daphne Forrester (Javicia Leslie) — are getting a brand new boss. And he’s not what you’re imagining.
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“It’s like, if we’re going to herald a brand new chief, you’ve seen that on different reveals, proper?” continues Harthan of the trope that often sees the introduction of a stern, by-the-book supervisor designed to trigger battle. “Effectively, what’s our model of that? What’s our taste? Let’s discover an actor that we will write to their versatility and shake issues up in a method that doesn’t appear proper down the center or anticipated.”
To that finish, Harthan has booked Steve Howey (True Lies) to play Captain Nick Wagner, a series-regular position written to the actor’s comedic savvy. “We constructed a personality that isn’t simply coming in to type of be the brand new boss and disrupt within the conventional methods and all that,” previews Harthan, who beforehand instructed TV Insider and TV Information Journal as a part of our Fall Preview that Wagner is “a bizarre, enigmatic character” with some hidden demons of his personal .
“He’s a little bit of a chameleon and he develops these relationships with every respective character which have their very own DNA. And that’s what’s been enjoyable to jot down to,” the showrunner says. “So, I believe instantly when Steve lands in our world, you’re going to begin to see these dynamics that he has with every perspective character. And that’s type of the enjoyable disruption that occurs within the bullpen.”
And what about outdoors of the precinct? Final season well served up a slow-burn one thing between Morgan and Karadec, so the arrival of a brand new man who sounds as quirky as Morgan might make for an fascinating addition to the equation.
“I believe for me, we needed to let [Wagner] breathe, see how he matches into our world earlier than we went, ‘Oh, let’s determine that that is what’s going to occur between these two,’ or ‘That is what’s going to occur between this potential love triangle.’ So it’s nonetheless an evolving storyline,” says an evasive Harthan. “However yeah, that’s all the time a part of the components that we throw in to see if it’s value writing to.”
Excessive Potential, Season 2 Premiere, Tuesday, September 16, 10/9c, ABC