Kaitlin Olson Thanks the ‘Jabronis’ for Getting ‘High Potential’ Renewed
Kaitlin Olson keeps using this word jabroni, and it’s awesome.
As the most piled-upon member of the Paddy’s Pub Gang, Sweet Dee has long had a hard time getting a fair shake in the fun. And while the real Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day and Danny DeVito have not yet set Kaitlin Olson on fire, destroyed several of her cars, broken her nose or choked her in front of a horrified crowd of Emmys voters, the lone female member of the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia cast is overdue for her time in the sun and not just in her light.
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With her ABC crime drama High Potential, Olson finally has that non-Always-Sunny hit performance that proves to the non-Always-Sunny-watching world that she’s one of TV’s brightest stars, and now that High Potential is officially greenlit for a second season, she wants to take a moment to thank the chumps that made it all possible:
While the set-up of High Potential is pretty typical for the police procedural drama genre — Olson plays a genius-level single mother of three who graduates from police department janitor to investigation consultant after cracking a case during the night shift — what sets the ABC hit apart from the very crowded pack is Olson herself. Her lead performance continues to headline the rave reviews of High Potential, and although Morgan certainly has a sort of wise-cracking shamelessness that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans will find familiar, she is certainly not another Dee-type character, given her intelligence, confidence and lack of borderline felonious sexual aggression.
Nevertheless, Olson shows that she always has a little Sunny in her, even when she’s thanking the fans of her other hit show that shares a network with Always Sunny’s new sister sitcom Abbott Elementary. There’s also something quizzical about the second half of Olson’s tweet — 1,800 weighted walking lunges seems like a lot. Is it possible that Sweet Dee is starting her own swole arc on Always Sunny to match the physique of her real-life husband?
Or is Season Two of High Potential extremely physically demanding? Is Morgan going to crack the case of the missing triathlete?