You know what kind of TV show I mean. “Castle.” “Bones.” “The Mentalist.” All cut from the same Sherlock Holmes-inspired cloth, each featuring a stodgy detective paired with an unconventional, dare I say downright annoying, citizen with seemingly magical powers of investigation and deduction. We love watching these wunderkinds find clues that the police miss, all the while wittily retorting to any suggestion that they follow procedure and the law.

In that venerable TV tradition, ABC brings us “High Potential” (Tuesdays, 10 EDT/PDT, ★★★ out of four), another cop show and a consultant who might deserve a mention among that list of hits. Based on a French series, “Potential” is a little silly and a little predictable, but also a lot of fun. It’s the kind of sunny detective dramedy we don’t see too often anymore in the sea of ​​overly grim “Chicago” spinoffs and “Law & Orders.” Created by “The Good Place” and “The Martian” producer Drew Goddard and starring “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” MVP Kaitlin Olson, “Potential” has the, well, potential to fill a cozy mystery niche we’ve all been missing in our deeply serious days.

In the duo of a maverick genius and a prissy cop, our brainiac is Morgan (Olson), a single mother of three with “high intellectual potential” but enough fickleness and unreliability to have gotten her fired from or quit every job she’s ever had. She stumbles upon her real job as a station janitor and is quickly apprehended by Commander Selena (Judy Reyes, “Scrubs”). It’s very “Good Will Hunting,” but with Olson dancing to pop music and wearing leopard prints.