Season One Finale Of High Potential Will Respond
During its next season finale, High Potential will address some but not all of the hot questions.
Daniel Sunjata, who portrays Karadec, hinted at how the popular ABC series concluded season 1 during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly.
"Some of the questions will have answers. There will be certain itches that do get scratched for the audience,” he noted. "But like all great television, you always leave the audience wanting a little bit more so they have something to come back to."
High Potential makes sure viewers "have a reason to anticipate" season 2. After debut in September, High Potential became ABC's most viewed show in six years—despite not being renewed yet.
The procedural follows a high-potential intellectual called Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) who links up with the LAPD to assist investigate crimes. She becomes partnered up with Karadec, who is first hesitant about how Morgan can aid the Major Crimes squad but gradually begins to rely on her.
Kaitlin Olson has the secret sauce. That light humorous aspect scattered throughout every episode explains why this is not your father's procedural. Sunjata, 52, said, "Morgan and Kaitlin's performance has so very much to do with it." “It’s a serious cop show and a serious procedural but there is this lightheartedness and quirkiness that Kaitlin brings to Morgan. That’s the thing that makes this program stand out from other procedurals that I’ve ever seen.”
Season 1 had Us engaged not only in Morgan’s path but Karadec’s as well. According to Sunjata, a prospective second season of High Potential would expand upon that by concentrating on Karadec more outside of the police station.
“I think we’ll see more of that probably in — fingers crossed — season 2. We’ll dive further into it. There will be a peep behind the curtain in terms of Karadec outside of the workplace,” the actor shared. “What his life is like outside of the precinct. They’ll definitely go more into that throughout season 2.”
While Karadec won’t be “that much different” by the conclusion of the first season, there is still an onscreen difference.
“He has been changed in terms of how there’s more than one way to come to the right answer. It doesn’t necessarily have to be color by numbers. Intuition can play a part,” he said about how Karadec will come around to Morgan’s insight. “It’s not just the fact that Morgan can memorize a bunch of facts. She has this awe-inspiring capacity to interpret things and to draw meaning from these apparently unconnected data, which is something that the detectives are lacking.”
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Sunjata continued: “At the end of this first season, Karadec will be far more open-minded in terms of how to go about solving cases. One thing that Karadec and Morgan absolutely have in common is they both genuinely care about justice. They both greatly care about safeguarding individuals who can’t protect themselves and writing what has been mistreated. Karadec is more open by the conclusion of season 1 to utilize new solutions to difficulties than he was at the beginning. That would be due to Morgan’s influence for sure.”
Getting to star on High Potential has been a wonderful adjustment for Sunjata.
“With procedural television, I look at it like a sandbox. A sandbox has limits and there’s a location where the sand exists, and then there’s a place where you are outside of the sandbox. But inside it, you can create endless sandcastles,” he explained to Us. “Finding freedom within the form of the genre is something that has been challenging for me. But for me as an actor, that’s the only way to keep things exciting for me. To keep it alive is to continuously be trying to discover new methods to shoot sequences in the same location. … Trying to find independence within the framework of the genre is something that has kept me on my toes and it gets me thrilled going to work every single day.”
High Potential is presently streaming via Hulu.