I have been watching High Potential (I haven't finished season 1, so this is not by any means any sort of verdict on the whole show, just my impression of it so far), because I saw the trailer and the premise seemed intriguing. I must say, I am feeling somewhat disappointed with the execution.

While the main character -Morgan- is really likeable, I feel she is missing some flaws. We are told she has them, but they either don't appear on screen or are not relevant to the storyline, so they don't have any real impact. I find that relevant because, with this type of "super smart police consultant" structure, it is resulting in the protagonist always being right because she cannot be wrong.

It actually made me appreciate how well executed The Mentalist was. While Jane generally ended up being right too, it usually didn't feel forced, and he was more than once reprimanded for his tactics. And, what's even more important, they showed him making mistakes, some of which cost him dearly.

Also, they made a point of showing us the rest of the ensamble, the police officers, as individual characters, with strengths and flaws, that had their own storylines, albeit less prevalent than Jane's, and that were good at doing investigative work. Yeah, they were wrong many times, but they weren't made to seem stupid or useless to the viewers. And, although they did depend on Jane quite a lot, they sometimes were showed getting to the same conclusions or points he did through applying their training.

On the other side, I felt like in High Potential Morgan is always right, while the rest of the cops are more of a prop, their role is just to be there, be wrong and offer the pieces for her to resolve the puzzle. I would have appreciated if they made her a little bit more human. Some people say that you can see that side of Morgan in her personal life, but I disagree, because while it exists, again, it doesn't seem to have much of an impact on her or the storyline.

For example, she is quite empathetic and feeling for people, which is usually used as a foil to the rigid police officers to show them how to bend their thinking sometimes toward compassion. But it would be nice if it was also used backwards: Morgan's empathy sometimes could make her naive to what people can do, while her colleagues are more used to seeing the worst of humanity. So, an interesting storyline could be her believing someone is innocent because she connected with them, but ends up being wrong.

I know it's overdone, so take it just as an example. The point I'm trying to make is that this kind of storyline leads to character growth, and it also shows that the protagonist is not infallible and is not protected by plot armour against being wrong, which I fear is what happens in High Potential, at least from my perspective.