High Potential first half of Season 2 came in fast, solved its cases even faster, and that’s all. Don’t get us wrong, the show is fun, but across those seven episodes, it felt like we kept circling the same points without really digging into anyone. And if they new episodes want to stick the landing, they need to shift its focus. Here’re 5 things that High Potential Season 2 absolutely needs to improve.
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1. A Better Balance Between Cases and Character Development
Look, we all enjoy a solid weekly case. The puzzles are cool, Morgan’s brain doing its thing is fun, and the team is great at bouncing off each other while they chase down clues. But the first half Season 2 leaned so hard on the cases that the characters barely had room to exist outside them. Every time we were about to get a scene about them — beyond Ava and Morgan — the show cut back to the case. In the next episodes of Season 2, we need to see that the cases matter because the characters matter.
2. More Morgadec
The slow burn is great. We love a slow burn. We cherish it. But High Potential Season 2 gave us the kind of slow burn where the stove wasn’t even turned on. Morgan and Karadec had one real episode focused on them and after that? A handful of scattered moments that felt like crumbs. We get it, it’s early days, but if the show wants us truly invested in this dynamic, we need to see it develop. We need scenes, conversations, awkwardness, tension, anything.
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3. More Oz and Daphne
Oz and Daphne are basically fixtures right now. They show up when the case needs a push, say a line or two, and vanish. And it’s wild, because there’s so much to unpack with both of them. Oz went through something terrifying — being kidnapped and almost killed by a serial killer is not a footnote — yet the show barely touched it afterward. And Daphne? We know… nothing. Who is she outside work? What does she care about? What’s going on in her life? The second part of the Season has to give them stories.
4. More Development Around Roman
Roman is the biggest loose thread the show dangled and then completely forgot about. Seven episodes and our only “progress” was meeting one random guy connected to him and a backpack that raised more questions than answers. Nothing meaningful happened with Morgan’s feelings about the love of her life being alive. Nothing with Ava’s perspective beyond touching the surface. It felt like the show teased a bomb and then just… walked away. We need more than that.
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5. More Female Friendship
Morgan and Daphne could be such a great duo. So could Morgan and Selena. And honestly? We’d take scenes of all three together any day. But High Potential Season 2 barely gave the women time to talk. Although they’ve been doing much better with Selena and Morgan than with Morgan and Daphne. And this show desperately needs those moments. We just hope the new episodes will show us much more of them.
High Potential Season 2 airs Tuesdays at 10 pm on ABC.
They need to circle back to the game maker case. The first victim said “they” wanted him to play and got bored when he wouldn’t. So you have the one guy, Matthew, likely the brains, arrested, and no pursuit of the second person. I suspect this will pop up again, but it’s annoying that it has been dismissed. Yes to more Daphne and Oz, and LT Soto. As for the Roman situation, I think the new Captain’s late woman is the undercover FBI agent handler of Roman’s, and he blames Roman for her death. I don’t like him, but I hope they hurry up and clear that up so he can be an asset, not a hindrance.