High Potential Season 2 Part 2 Review: Crime Without Teeth
- Niels Gys
- 7 days ago
- 5 min read
TL;DR
A crime show that thinks being clever excuses being safe, soft, and terrified of actual criminals.
High Potential Season 2 Part 2 is slick, smart, and aggressively inoffensive.
It is crime television for people who like puzzles more than danger. Brilliance more than chaos. Correctness more than consequence.
Kaitlin Olson deserves better material. Criminals deserve better representation. And CRIMENET deserves more filth.
This isn’t a bad show.
It’s just too well-behaved to be interesting.
Watching High Potential and feeling too clean afterward? Balance it out with real criminal atmosphere:
Wrap your living room like a low-budget murder scene and remind yourself crime is supposed to be messy.
Where Crime Goes to Die Politely
Let’s get one thing straight. If you come to CRIMENET looking for seductive criminal chaos, moral rot, or the delicious thrill of rooting for the wrong people, High Potential will gently escort you outside and offer you herbal tea.
This is not a show that celebrates crime. It files crime alphabetically, explains it very calmly, then locks it in a drawer.
The central fantasy here is not “what if I could outsmart the system.” It’s “what if the system hired the smartest person alive and everyone behaved nicely afterward.”
No seductive criminals. No moral ambiguity. No glorious screwups. Just puzzles. Clean, polite, suburban puzzles. Crime as a crossword, not a disease.
Procedural Cruise Control at 55 mph
Season 2 Part 2 continues the show’s proud tradition of never, ever surprising you.
Every episode follows the same rhythm: Crime happens. Everyone is confused. Morgan thinks. Morgan explains. Crime apologizes. Roll credits.
It is efficient. It is competent. It is also about as thrilling as watching someone parallel park correctly.
The pacing never panics, never spirals, never loses control. Which sounds good until you realize that means it also never risks anything. No narrative pileups. No structural insanity. No “oh God, what have they done” moments.
This is crime TV with training wheels. Permanently attached.
Kaitlin Olson vs The Beige Brigade
Let’s be fair before we get cruel.
Kaitlin Olson is excellent. Charismatic. Warm. Sharp. She carries this show like a getaway driver dragging three unconscious accountants across the finish line.
Her character Morgan is written as superhumanly intelligent, morally flawless, emotionally balanced, and perpetually correct. Which makes her impressive, but also means she never really bleeds.
Everyone else exists to nod. Occasionally they look impressed. Sometimes they look worried. Mostly they exist so Morgan can explain things to them like a TED Talk with sirens.
There is no true wildcard character. No loose cannon. No beautiful disaster. Just a carefully arranged lineup of competence.
A crime show where nobody feels dangerous is like a heist movie where everyone queues politely.
Smart Enough to Sound Smart
The dialogue does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more.
It explains. It clarifies. It reassures.
Occasionally a line lands with a satisfying snap, usually when Olson is allowed to be dry or sarcastic. But most of the time the writing plays it safe, neutral, inoffensive. Dialogue that fears being misinterpreted. Dialogue that triple-checks its seatbelt.
No verbal gunfights. No quotable madness. No lines that feel like they were written at 2 a.m. with bad decisions and worse coffee.
This is Netflix-grade beige with a high IQ sticker slapped on it.
Crime, But Make It Hygienic
This world does not sweat.
The crimes are serious, but never ugly. The danger exists, but never lingers. The streets look like they were cleaned five minutes before filming.
Nothing feels corrupt. Nothing feels rotten. Nothing feels like it would actually ruin someone’s life beyond the runtime of the episode.
It’s crime without consequences. Guilt without grime. Sin without smell.
Perfect for viewers who enjoy the idea of crime but would prefer it not track mud onto the carpet.
This show makes crime feel like a Sudoku. So naturally you’ll need a whiteboard to feel clever too.
Stand there smugly explaining nothing to no one. Morgan would approve.
Competent, Clean, Completely Unhinged by Nothing
The camera does its job. Which is also the problem.
There is no visual insanity. No stylistic risk. No moments where the show loses its balance and stumbles into something interesting.
Everything is framed, lit, and edited to reassure you that you are watching a respectable television program. The kind your parents would approve of. The kind that wins awards called “People’s Choice” instead of “What the Hell Did I Just Watch.”
The show never lets go of the wheel. And because of that, it never skids.
Background Noise With a Badge
The music hums along politely, doing exactly what it’s told. Tension here. Relief there. No identity. No bite.
Nothing that makes you want to rewind a scene just to hear it again. Nothing that adds danger. Nothing that makes you feel like something could go horribly wrong.
It is sonic wallpaper.
Virtue With a PhD
This is where High Potential truly reveals itself.
Morgan is always right. Morgan is always ethical. Morgan is always justified.
She doesn’t blur lines. She redraws them neatly with a ruler.
The show is terrified of letting its genius protagonist be truly wrong. Or selfish. Or destructive. Or morally compromised.
Which means it never asks uncomfortable questions. It answers comfortable ones very efficiently.
This is not a show that makes you question your ethics. It makes you admire someone else’s.
CRIMENET remains unconvinced.
Comfort Crime for the Anxious Mind
You can binge this easily. Too easily.
Episodes slide down like lukewarm soup. Pleasant. Predictable. Forgettable.
You will enjoy it while it’s on. You will struggle to recall a single specific case two weeks later.
This is background crime. Ironed. Folded. Stored.
Sustainable, Safe, Slightly Soulless
The show will continue. Of course it will.
It’s popular. It’s accessible. It offends no one. It challenges nothing. It delivers exactly what it promises and never anything extra.
But unless it grows teeth, or lets its genius protagonist actually mess things up, High Potential will remain what it is now.
A very clever show that never does anything reckless.
Finished the season and still craving danger?
Perfect for writing alibis, bad ideas, or reasons this show should grow teeth.
FAQ
Is High Potential Season 2 worth watching? Yes, if you enjoy crime solved with a whiteboard and zero emotional fallout.
Is it actually dark or gritty? No. It wears darkness like a cardigan.
Does it glorify cops? Not loudly, but it gently polishes the badge until it shines.
Is Kaitlin Olson good? Excellent. She’s carrying the show like stolen goods.
Will criminals enjoy this series? Only the kind that files their tax returns early.
Does it ever go off the rails? No. The rails are bolted to the ground.
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