These mini-documentary portraits of young, up-and-coming athletes - like high-school basketball star Jalen Green, Olympic skier Red Gerard, and boxer Chantel Navarro - are well shot, but the stories don't quite feel complete.
Meet the sports stars of tomorrow! Handsomely produced - it's chockfull of slow-motion shots of athletes doing their thing - Prodigy has an HBO Real Sports vibe to it, but it's far too dry for its own good.
The portraits are deeply moving and personal, even if they have a tendency to veer toward adoration. Rapinoe only appears at the beginning of each episode to introduce the young athlete. Then she's gone, which seems a waste.
As with many of the "real life" shows here the quibi does little to appeal to viewers beyond the already faithful, but sports fans, particularly those who enjoy seeing the behind the scenes realities for athletes, will enjoy.
The most thrilling footage in Prodigy speaks in the visceral language of streetball mixtapes and skateboarding videos, feats of athletic prowess that don't need the window-dressing or superstar endorsements to make jaws drop.
Megan Rapinoe is a fairly wooden host, but these little snippets looking at budding athletic superstars - in sports as varied as basketball, snowboarding and women's boxing - have the feeling of solid SportsCenter profiles, which isn't a bad thing at all.
It's an effort to do in-depth sports profiles one step before they usually happen, and to identify what it looks like as someone transitions from an ordinary good athlete to potentially A Big Deal.
