High Potential Season 1 Episode 1 ‘Pilot’ kicks off with a main character charismatic enough to hook us because, who doesn’t like the typical misfit genius? Plus, we have already found the ship that we will go down with no matter what! Ready?
Here we go!
High Intellectual Capacity
Reviewing a pilot is never easy. Normally, the episode is about introducing the characters and little else, and that’s great for a recap, but not so much for a review. High Potential Season 1, Episode 1 ‘Pilot’ is no exception.
The episode introduces us to Morgan, the cleaning lady at a police station with three children of different ages, which makes her life somewhat… busy. She is a survivor and a lover of life. She is funny, quirky, and spontaneous.
But, above all, she is smart… smarter than anyone gives her credit for. After all, to everyone at that police station, she is just a cleaning lady, someone invisible. Despite this, Morgan enjoys her job to the fullest and a coincidence makes her correct a small mistake the investigators made in an ongoing investigation.
At the same time that High Potential‘s ‘Pilot’ introduces us to Morgan, it does the same with Karadec, a detective who, besides being a hypochondriac, is the complete opposite of Morgan. He has his life controlled and calculated to the millimeter. He likes order, planning, and knowing what to expect at every moment.
So when he discovers that Morgan touched the whiteboard of his investigation and changed something important, he is furious. At first, he thinks that Morgan has something to do with the case because, of course, a woman like her cannot be smarter than him — irony mode on — you know, the male ego, fragile masculinity, and all that.
But Morgan is quick to give him — figuratively — a hard time when she does her magic. She notices things that go unnoticed by everyone and comes to the right conclusions faster than anyone else. Karadec is still stuck in his denial, he doesn’t want to know anything about Morgan and her methods.
The traditional method of solving cases has always worked for him, so why change now? Besides, Morgan is pure chaos. She is messy, irreverent, she doesn’t follow the rules… she doesn’t fit into Karadec’s square world.
The Spark that Sets Everything on Fire in High Potential Season 1, Episode 1 ‘Pilot’
Unfortunately, Selena, his boss, has other plans in High Potential Season 1, Episode ‘Pilot.’ She is the only one who really sees Morgan. She is the only one who realizes that there is much more behind her extravagant style and her indiscipline and irreverence. And she knows that Morgan has potential as a member of the team, she can make them better.
As expected, the first time the Karadec and Morgan duo work together goes wrong. Morgan makes interesting discoveries but her lack of rigor when it comes to finding the clues and the little importance she gives to rules and protocol gets on Karadec’s nerves.
However, when the two stop trying to be right all the time and really open up to working together in High Potential‘s ‘Pilot,’ everything changes. Karadec sees for the first time what lies beneath all the chaos that is Morgan. He sees her genius. He values her findings, he values her, he even gets into her rhythm and we see them for the first time in harmony, understanding where the other wants to go and supporting each other. And we see the magic they are capable of creating.
That spark is there.
It’s been a while since we felt it and we love it, we want more! And it seems that we are going to have it. Although Morgan isn’t going to accept Selena’s offer to join the team at first, she ends up doing so on the condition that they find Ava’s father.
And this is a story that intrigues us. Ava is convinced that her father abandoned them, which is coupled with her insecurity about not being as smart as her mother, but Morgan is convinced that he would never have done that to them. Who is right? Why is Morgan so sure that he didn’t abandon them? We need answers!
Other Stuff in High Potential 1×01 ‘Pilot’
- We love the drawings when Morgan is explaining something!
- The rest of the team hasn’t been given much play in this episode, but they also seem promising to us.
- Who doesn’t live the music like this when we are alone and we know that no one is going to see us?
High Potential airs on Tuesdays at 10 pm ET on ABC.
