10 Shows Like ‘High Potential’ to Watch While You Wait for Next Season
If you enjoyed watching Kaitlin Olson solve crimes as a cleaner-turned-consultant with an impressive IQ, we’d say there’s High Potential you’d also enjoy the TV shows below.
High Potential ended its first-season run in February, and Season 2 is already on the way. ABC renewed the procedural in January after it became the No. 1 broadcast entertainment series among adults 18-to-49, per Deadline.
That second season likely won’t premiere until this fall at the earliest, but we know many similar TV shows to keep you entertained until then. We’ve already rounded up 10 TV shows with unconventional crime-solvers, and below, we’re presenting 10 others.
High Intellectual Potential
We, of course, have to mention the show that started it all. High Potential is based on the French-Belgian production HPI — or High Intellectual Potential as it’s called on Hulu — in which Audrey Fleurot has played Morgane (not Morgan) for four seasons and counting.
The Irrational
In this show, Law & Order vet Jesse L. Martin gets back on the case as Alec Mercer, a behavioral science professor who knows people are irrational but “predictably so.” (And stay tuned for the show’s second-season musical episode!)
Ludwig
This British series has viewers seeing double. David Mitchell plays both John “Ludwig” Taylor, a reclusive puzzle constructor, and identical twin DCI James Taylor, the missing Cambridge detective Ludwig impersonates in hopes of locating.
NUMB3RS
From executive producers Tony and Ridley Scott, this procedural is another brother act. Rob Morrow plays an FBI agent who teams up with his younger bro, David Krumholtz’s genius mathematician, to solve crimes. As CBS said in promos, people lie, but numbers don’t.
Poker Face
Knives Out filmmaker Rian Johnson created this mystery series, which stars an Emmy-nominated Natasha Lyonne as a lie-spotting casino worker. After running afoul of her bosses, Lyonne’s Charlie Cale flees across the country, solving cases along the way.
Scorpion
This procedural follows a team of super-genius misfits who confront complicated threats to national security. It’s based on the life of information technologist Walter O’Brien, who says he has an IQ of 196 (though his claims are contested).
Unforgettable
Speaking of towering intellects, this series starred Poppy Montgomery as an NYPD detective whose case of hyperthymesia means she remembers everything about her life. Everything, that is, except the details surrounding her sister’s murder.
Veronica Mars
Kristen Bell became a household name on this series, playing a teen sleuth whose perceptiveness and wit come in handy at school and at her dad’s P.I. business. Veronica, too, is haunted by an unsolved murder — that of her best friend.
Wild Cards
This Canadian import stars Giacomo Gianniotti as a demoted detective and Vanessa Morgan as the con artist who helps him crack a case — and who may help him get his career back on track. Think: police procedural with an odd-couple twist.
Will Trent
With his keen powers of observation, the titular crime-solver has the highest clearance rate in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent on this network sibling of High Potential. Suffice it to say, where there’s a Will, there’s a way to solve a crime.
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