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Three similar shows I enjoy…

The shows watched at home have changed over the years. We’ve retired (and the networks have retired) The Mentalist, Elementary, Castle, This is Us, The Good Doctor and more.

We still watch AGT, The Voice, Grey’s, The Masked Singer, the Dick Wolf shows like FBI, Chicago Med/Fire/PD, and various of the Law & Order franchise.

But there are three more recent shows that are similar to each other in some respects. Here they are in order of release:

• WILL TRENT (ABC)
• THE IRRATIONAL (NBC)
• HIGH POTENTIAL (ABC)

Will Trent is highly original, has some sexual content (which I try to limit) and the dyslexic detective is able to visualize crime scene events after the fact, and draw conclusions that most of his colleagues can only strive for. Trent is an orphan who makes the best of a difficult childhood and compensates for his reading handicap by dictating notes to a micro-cassette recorder.

Alec Mercer (The Irrational protagonist) is not, “The Science Guy”, but the behavioral science guy, and The Irrational truly has a unique concept that shows Mercer and his team conducting social experiments that help reveal human tendencies. These outcomes inform crime investigations, and Mercer also diffuses certain perilous situations by psychoanalyzing the perpetrators in question.

I thought that CBS would come out with a similitude of the above two shows, but ABC checked in this season with a concept similar to Will Trent, High Potential. Morgan Gillory is a single mom of a gifted son and artistic daughter. Morgan can visualize crime scenarios like Will Trent, but has a higher EQ than Trent, and is deputized by the local police when they learn she has limitless knowledge and insight.

There is much more to each of these shows, but suffice it to say that they all stimulate and entertain me, and I hope they all stay around for a while…