External links
- Prime Target at IMDb
| 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 episodes | 8 |
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| Cinematography | Dan Atherton |
| Editor | Beverley Mills |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Apple TV+ |
| Release | 22 January – 5 March 2025 |
Prime Target is a thriller tv series created by Steve Thompson and starring Leo Woodall as a mathematician. It premiered on Apple TV+ on 22 January 2025, consisting of 8 episodes.
Edward Brooks is analyzing prime numbers at Cambridge University. He is being monitored by NSA agents like Taylah Sanders. Brooks' professor warns him off the project before being killed.
When Sanders' colleagues are executed, she finds Brooks and helps keep him alive. They travel to Baghdad to continue his research. Sanders finds that her supervisor has approved Brooks' assassination. Brooks is able to develop a prime 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 |
| 2 | "Syracuse" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 22 January 2025 |
| 3 | "The Sequence" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 29 January 2025 |
| 4 | "Kaplar" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 5 February 2025 |
| 5 | "House of Wisdom" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 12 February 2025 |
| 6 | "The Last Link" | Brady Hood | Thomas Martin | 19 February 2025 |
| 7 | "Prime Finder" | Brady Hood | Selina Lim & Steve Thompson | 26 February 2025 |
| 8 | "The Key" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 5 March 2025 |
It was announced in February 2024 that Apple TV+ had greenlit the series, created by Steve Thompson. [2]
Principal photography took place in Windsor in May 2023, with other filming locations reported to include London. [3] Filming took place in Cambridge in August 2023. [4] Photography took place in Morocco, Paris, and Kent. [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 and final episode on 5 March. [7]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 46% approval rating with an average rating of 5.2/10, based on 41 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 55 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [9]
