The 2020 Summer Olympics, as held in Tokyo in 2021, have been something of a mess. The (ongoing) global health crisis already delayed the Games for a year and additionally forced restrictions that meant athletes would be competing in empty arenas and stadiums. But beyond that, NBC’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics has been scattershot, with a dependence upon prefab narratives and storytelling devices that, during this unpredictable time, are unable to capture the fluid excitement of competition.Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg Season 1 Download.
Which doesn’t even begin to address the underwhelming incorporation of the conglomerate’s streaming service Peacock into its Olympic push.And yet squirreled away on Peacock is the hidden gem of the Tokyo Olympics, the sole saving grace of a slate of broadcasting bummers: “Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg.”The buzz about the series — at least within IndieWire’s virtual headquarters — began with a tweet.
If you love watching the Olympics as much as I do, your experience is not complete without the Snoop/Kevin Hart highlight show. It’s not only hilarious, they’re GREAT interviewers. Why isn’t Peacock promoting this more?— Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) August 1, 2021.From there it was just a matter of checking out the generically titled, half-hour show. And as happens all the time, in every single situation, Twitter was right on the money! Whether you’re a fan of Kevin Hart or not, his pairing with the always effortlessly cool Snoop Dogg is low-key genius, with Hart’s high-strung energy and Snoop’s laid-back vibe forming the perfect hybrid strain of sports entertainment.Basically, the show is as good as not advertised and proof positive that NBC has lost its grasp on what people want from the Olympics.Take the title of the series for starters: “Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg.” Well, that’s definitely the exact phrase someone scribbled on the whiteboard during the Olympics coverage pitch meeting and was apparently never revisited. If you were wondering, a Google search for the phrase “olympic highlights” yields a mere 518 million results so keyword optimization wasn’t exactly a priority.