| Prime Target | |
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Created by | Steve Thompson |
| Directed by | Brady Hood |
| Starring | |
| Composer | Arthur Sharpe |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Cinematography | Dan Atherton |
| Editor | Beverley Mills |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Apple TV+ |
| Release | 22 January 2025 (2025-01-22) – present |
Prime Target is athriller television series created bySteve Thompson and starringLeo Woodall as a mathematician. It premiered onApple TV+ on 22 January 2025.
Edward Brooks is adoctoral student at theUniversity of Cambridge. The subject of his dissertation is an analysis of patterns in the sequence ofprime numbers. His academic supervisor, Robert Mallinder, is being monitored byNSA agents, including Taylah Sanders, who keep watch on anyone who might make advances in this field given its importance to cryptography. When Mallinder realises the subject of Brooks' work, he warns him off the project and destroys his student's research. Shortly afterwards Mallinder appears to kill himself. Around about the same time, Sanders' colleagues are executed and she flees to find Brooks. They travel toBaghdad to continue his research in a newly discovered historical site that may contain information from early Islamic mathematicians. Sanders finds that her supervisor has approved Brooks' assassination. Eventually Brooks is detained by the NSA and is able to develop aprime finder that will aid codebreaking.
Brooks realizes that Professor James Alderman has been the one ruthlessly pursuing the prime finder and will keep ordering killings in order to find it. Brooks kills him and goes on the run while Sanders faces the police.
| No. | Title [1] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [1] |
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| 1 | "A New Pattern" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 22 January 2025 (2025-01-22) |
| 2 | "Syracuse" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 22 January 2025 (2025-01-22) |
| 3 | "The Sequence" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 29 January 2025 (2025-01-29) |
| 4 | "Kaplar" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 5 February 2025 (2025-02-05) |
| 5 | "House of Wisdom" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 12 February 2025 (2025-02-12) |
| 6 | "The Last Link" | Brady Hood | Thomas Martin | 19 February 2025 (2025-02-19) |
| 7 | "Prime Finder" | Brady Hood | Selina Lim & Steve Thompson | 26 February 2025 (2025-02-26) |
| 8 | "The Key" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 5 March 2025 (2025-03-05) |
It was announced in February 2024 thatApple TV+ had greenlit the series, created bySteve Thompson.[2] Principal photography took place inWindsor in May 2023, with other filming locations reported to includeLondon.[3] Filming took place inCambridge in August 2023.[4] Photography took place in Morocco, Paris, andKent.[5][6]
Prime Target was released on Apple TV+ on 22 January 2025, with the first two episodes available immediately and followed by one episode on a weekly basis until the eighth episode on 5 March.[7]
The review aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes reported a 46% approval rating with an average rating of 5.2/10, based on 43 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "(Goofy concept + likable ensemble) ÷ sludgy pacing = an attractive but mediocre globetrotting series."[8]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 56 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[9]
