Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but watched Excessive Potential through ABC or streamed with a Hulu subscription, so be warned!
I’m not going to get hyperbolic right here, however I believe Excessive Potential’s inventive crew is actively making an attempt to break my life. Wait, no, I’m certain they’re a beautiful bunch, and so they’ve been aces at giving the community procedural formulation a refreshing jolt of power and comedy that permits Kaitlin Olson, Daniel Sunjata and the remainder of the forged to pop even more durable. However its newest episode to hit the 2025 TV schedule seemingly imploded the principle storyline I used to be most looking forward to, not less than the place Morgan’s private life is worried.
It’s maybe relevant that an episode titled “The RAMs” so simply gouged my coronary heart with its piercing horns, or on the very least, it made me upset a couple of romantic arc that I kinda figured was going to be short-lived. However it nonetheless hurts! Although I do give all concerned credit score for pulling in a trio of visitor stars that helped ease the sorrow.
JD Pardo’s Tom Has Left The Constructing (And The Complete Metropolis)
I’ve written beforehand about hoping for extra sparks between Tom and Morgan when Excessive Potential returned from its winter hiatus, and was totally on board for JD Pardo’s character sticking round for the lengthy haul. Even when the episode synopsis talked about Tom’s private information cropping up, I balanced my worries with optimism. It may have been a superb factor!
Alas, not even Morgan herself was placing sufficient effort into turning their kinship into one thing extra. Regardless of clearly having some sort of emotions for the dude, Morgan has already confirmed herself largely incapable of life balances, and has allowed her new detective gig to dictate the vast majority of her time and psychological area. As we discovered, she wasn’t answering his calls, and she or he additionally wasn’t returning them after the very fact.
So credit score to him for being as understanding as he was whereas formally telling her he was leaving city to take a job supply in San Diego. Pardo efficiently performed the scene as if Tom was struggling to maintain the chip on his shoulder. Simply because he understands her plight doesn’t suggest he ought to be completely satisfied about it.
Nonetheless, Tom playfully appeared to be holding the door open to a connection down the road by saying San Diego is not so far-off, however I am not so assured. Particularly since their interplay was primarily damaged up by Karadec strolling by as they had been hugging and asking Morgan if she was able to go. I do know quite a lot of followers need Morgan and Karadec collectively, however that simply made me need that coupling even much less.
I suppose I am completely satisfied that Excessive Potential slotted Morgan and Tom parting methods within the first half of the episode, because it allowed the trio of visitor stars to respectively work their magic.
- Steve Guttenberg, of Police Academy and 3 Males and a Child fame, popped up as a pampered wealthy dude with a not-so-neighborly relationship with the episode’s massive sufferer, a famed baseball announcer. I will admit my instant assumptions that he was accountable had been simply due to his guest-star standing, however his breezy perspective and amusing efficiency nonetheless performed into my suspicions. Alas, regardless of proudly owning the automotive used because the weapon, Phil Elko was harmless. However responsible of unhealthy style, in that he named his prized four-car assortment after The Beatles.
- Sean Patrick Thomas (Save the Final Dance, Gen V) performed one other potential suspect, the announcer’s son who simply so occurred to get written out of his father’s will instead of a beloved assistant. The way in which Karadec was so transparently empathetic to Thomas’ Dexter Value had me satisfied for a minute that the detective’s instincts had been off-base, and that the son would certainly be responsible, however that was improper. And I am glad, since their mini-convo about dropping their fathers was impactful.
- The Wire vet Domenick Lombardozziin is the one considered one of these three that I anticipate to see once more sooner or later, as he is at the moment a lynchpin in Morgan discovering out extra details about her long-missing husband. He is leaving city impulsively, proper when he is capable of supply data, which I am certain is fully resulting from BTS schedule-plotting greater than something natural to the story. However I am positively anxious to be taught what he is aware of after he used the titular RAMs remark to “show” he was telling the reality. I am not all the best way bought simply but.
All in all, it was a stable episode that additionally featured some enjoyable cutaway humor and measurement-related sight gags, which make Excessive Potential stand out much more from the competitors. However it additionally despatched JD Pardo’s Tom packing, so I am gonna go see if Steve Guttenberg’s character will let me borrow considered one of his automobiles to make me really feel higher.
Excessive Potential airs Tuesday nights on ABC at 9:00 p.m. ET.