If you watched the Emmys, you might have seen one of the nearly incessant advertisements for ABC’s new detective procedural, High Potential, starring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson as a brassy single mother of three who also happens to solve murder cases. Perhaps, like me, you were in need of something new but easy to watch, and—the commercials still replaying in your mind—you found yourself booting up Hulu to give High Potential a try. Maybe you came to the same conclusion that I did: This series is exactly what it appears to be, a murder-of-the-week episodic procedural with a familiar premise of “outsider makes use of unique talents to enter the world of crime-solving for the first time.” Plainly, it’s nothing new—but that’s exactly what makes High Potential a must-watch.
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