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Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but watched High Potential’s penultimate Season 2 episode on ABC, or streaming by way of Hulu subscription and Disney+ subscription, so be warned!
Somehow, science nonetheless isn’t on prime of that entire “Kaitlin Olson hasn’t yet been cloned for the purposes of continuing to film High Potential alongside any other TV commitments” conundrum. As such, followers are as soon as once more set for a season finale that feels prefer it arrived too quickly. At least the stakes are appropriately larger than final yr, though I dunno how the present can actually prime Season 1’s triple cliffhanger.
I’m guessing it’ll have one thing to do with the elevator-contained fireworks that sparked between Morgan and Wagner’s smooching lips, although. Which in all probability means some form of an enormous subsequent step for Karadec and Lucia as effectively. But all that may maintain off, as a result of I requested outgoing showrunner Todd Harthan for all the small print about Kaitlin Olson and Steve Howey’s characters. When I inquired about whether or not there have been conversations about having Morgan and Wagner reaching this level earlier within the season, Harthan shared:
Yes and no. We at all times knew our Captain would take a direct curiosity in Morgan, as a result of how might he not, proper? But we wished his curiosity to initially come from what he’d heard about her, what she brings to this crew, and the way good she is right here.
Todd Harthan
Morgan is unquestionably a sure shade of dream-woman, and it’s a surprise that Oz hasn’t tried to go down that highway but. (Note: Oz needs to be forbidden-by-curse to ever even take a look at that highway.) But it’s simple to see how a man like Wagner might discover his swagger staggered by an curiosity and intimidation associated to Morgan.
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Of course, this episode actually made a meal out of placing Wagner on a main-character pedestal of types to justify why Morgan would then eagerly reciprocate that curiosity, even after his failed try to kiss her whereas sh-thoused. To that finish, one more reason the artistic crew didn’t soar extra shortly into Morgan and Wagner’s romance is as a result of actress and govt producer herself.
We actually wished to see the place issues went naturally between Morgan and Wagner and admittedly, we additionally wished an opportunity to see what felt proper to Kaitlin, who’s at all times an enormous a part of these artistic discussions, particularly anytime we deliver a man into Morgan’s world. Our hope was that seeing issues develop, with nobody positive what to make of this new Captain–that it could take our viewers on a extra shocking, emotional journey. So we hope they take pleasure in it!
Todd Harthan
The showrunner beforehand talked to me about how much Olson digs into the scene-building and dialogue behind the scenes assist maintain the characters as life like and relatable as could be. So I absolutely applaud her additionally having a voice with regards to who her character is interested in. Not all TV actresses have been so fortunate, to say the very least.
Harthan additionally addressed the truth that holding off on advancing that thread made it simpler to keep away from any probably problematic office romance points, at the least at a degree the place they had been nonetheless all bizarre round one another. As he put it:
Look, professionally Captain Wagner is Morgan’s superior so we stayed fairly conscious of that of their interactions. We knew that if issues had been going to show romantic, that Morgan wanted to steer that to ensure that us to land issues the correct approach. We additionally knew that if something developed it in all probability wouldn’t occur till the tip of the season as a result of it could take time for them to determine one another out.
Todd Harthan
I’m 1000% on that very same web page. For one, if she’d made a transfer to lock lips with Wagner whereas he was nonetheless sporting his mustache, I might need recoiled arduous sufficient to go backwards 0.25 seconds in time. Two, “Second Sunday” marked the largest peek into Wagner’s life, even when most of it was nonetheless on the skilled facet, and he was really weak and never simply mildly creepy. So there wasn’t that a lot for Morgan to latch onto, I’d suppose.
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But worrying updates about Roman, mixed with booze and a busy shootout, make it simpler to see how Morgan would search out that form of launch, even when it did not go any additional than the elevator.
Todd Harthan did level out that he and author/EP Marc Halsey purposefully wished this replace in Morgan’s love life to face out, saying:
We additionally wished to make it really feel very completely different from what occurred so shortly between her and Rhys in 207. The fact is it in all probability was at all times going to take a special form of episode for Morgan and Wagner to lean into one another — which is what Marc and I got down to do in 217.
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I’m not even positive if I really need to root for Morgan and Wagner to remain the course, however I haven’t got an entire lot of religion that it is going to occur, no matter my very own needs. It’s slightly too early for something everlasting for both, with Wagner clearly nonetheless emotional about his personal previous. And if we get some form of huge Roman reveal within the finale, that’ll solely complicate issues additional. For now, although, they’ll each exist steamily collectively on the best way to the parking storage.
High Potential‘s Season 2 finale is unfortunately nearly right here, with “Family Tree” set to air on ABC on Tuesday, April 7, at 9:00 p.m. ET. Be positive to observe to see how this probably not-as-icky-as-I-thought love-line performs out. Season 3 is already set to return to ABC later within the 2026 TV schedule, so at the least we cannot want to fret about that.
