During its wildly popular first season, High Potential quite perfectly toed the line with Kaitlin Olson’s Morgan and Daniel Sunjata’s Karadec, in terms of making them semi-flirty enough to have some viewers clamoring for them to hook up . I’m not one of those people, and the two characters’ (currently) non-romantic kinship is one of the trope-bucking elements I love about the show . But even I’m aware of how inevitable it is, and the showrunner’s latest “love triangle” comments point towards such outcomes in a way that I can get on board with.
For one, showrunner Todd Harthan isn’t explicitly saying that Morgan and Karadec are definitely getting together, and teases that new cast member, Shameless vet Steve Howey will be a possible bump in that road when he enters the picture as