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.
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Main
- Leo Woodall as Edward Brooks, a mathematics student at Cambridge University
- Quintessa Swindell as Taylah Sanders, an NSA agent remotely spying on various academics
- Sidse Babett Knudsen as Professor Andrea Lavin, Robert Mallinder's wife, an archaeologist and professor at Cambridge
- David Morrissey as Professor Robert Mallinder, a mathematics professor who died under suspicious circumstances
- Stephen Rea as Professor James Alderman
- Fra Fee as Adam Mellor
- Joseph Mydell as Professor Raymond Osborne
- Jason Flemyng as Stephen Patrick Nield
- Martha Plimpton as Jane Torres
- Harry Lloyd as Andrew Carter
- Ali Suliman as Dr. Akram Nizar
Recurring
- Maanuv Thiara as Dr. Charan Nathoo
- Sergej Onopko as Bogdan Vlahovic
Guest
- Daisy Waterstone as Fiona Carey
- Tim Faraday as Keith Wyatt
- Rod Hallett as Brian Brooks
- Tom Stourton as Ricky Olson
- Sofia Barclay as Safiya Zamil
- Tom Byrne as Tom Grayson
Episodes
Production
It was announced in February 2024 that Apple TV had greenlit the series, created by Steve Thompson.
Principal photography took place in Windsor in May 2023, with other filming locations reported to include London. Filming took place in Cambridge in August 2023. Photography took place in Morocco, Paris, and Kent.
Release
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.
Reception
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." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 55 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
References
External links
- Prime Target at IMDb
