Leo Woodall ('One Day') plays a brilliant graduate student whose work puts him in the crosshairs of a global conspiracy.

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A formulaic eight-part thriller, Prime Target revolves around an outstanding but standoffish Cambridge postgrad mathematician called Edward, whose esoteric research into prime numbers sequences inadvertently gives him the tools to access any computer and control the entire digital world.

Prime Target starts with a captivating concept that blends intellectual puzzles with espionage, but stumbles due to uneven pacing, repetitive exposition, and melodrama that undercuts its potential.

“Prime Target,” an eight-episode thriller premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+, has the juicy vibe of a novel you might pick up at an airport and rip through in a single flight. It has an outlandish premise, beautiful people, and it ends on a cliffhanger every episode.

Apple TV+ is known for two types of programming: sci-fi and suspense. In “Prime Target,” the platform’s latest entry in the suspense category, Edward Brooks, a brilliant young math postgraduate,

The latest thriller from Apple TV Plus – Prime Target – hasn’t been met with the most glowing reviews. Despite a promising trailer, the series has achieved just 33% on review website Rotten Tomatoes after the first two episodes were made available on the streamer.

Leo Woodall and Quinessa Swindell, co-stars of Apple TV+'s math thriller "Prime Target," discuss whether they did well at school sums. (Jan. 20)

Math plus computer hacking equals the dullest conspiracy-minded thriller in recent memory. Steve Thompson’s eight-part Apple TV+ series, premiering Jan. 22, is the dreariest sort of small-screen affair,