‘High Potential’: Kaitlin Olson Is Starring in a New Comedy. You Better Watch.

So you mean to tell me there’s a procedural series starring Kaitlin Olson called High Potential that’s not about her solving crimes while high?!

It’s not that Olson is synonymous with stoner culture so much as known—beloved, even—for characters who blunder through unusual situations with underachieving yet winning gusto. She performs, most notably on the sitcoms It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Hacks, with a comic fearlessness that would be wasted on a more stock character. Surely, then, there must be some twist to her network crime-solver beyond plugging her into the modern-day Sherlock Holmes framework?

High Potential sure seems to think there is. When Morgan (Olson), a harried but resourceful single mother of three, gets caught messing with a suspect board at her night job cleaning a Los Angeles police station, she explains to the police that she noticed an error that would haunt her if it went uncorrected. After further displays of superpowered noticing—at one point, she flags a surveillance video’s date as faked based on wind direction and the east-facing orientation of virtually all Catholic churches—she explains to supervising investigator Selena (Judy Reyes) that she’s considered a “high-potential intellectual.” This designation includes a 160 IQ, a hypersensitive eye for detail, a photographic memory, and a mind too restless to let things go.

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