In this month of January, all eyes were, obviously, on season 2 of Severance. However, in the shadows, Apple TV+ had not said its last word and has planned another little treat for us straight out of its now renowned factories. At a time when Prime Video is a hit with The Days of the Jackalnow the Apple streaming platform also has its thriller: Prime Target.
Edward Brooks is a Cambridge postgraduate student with a passion for mathematics. He secretly works on the possibility that prime numbers fit an established pattern. What he doesn’t know is that he is thus putting himself on the trail of a solution to take control of all the computers in the world. His work stolen, he will team up with an NSA agent to try to understand who is trying to eliminate them. At the same time, an ancient ancient site is discovered in Baghdad and this could well be one of the keys.
Prime Target was designed by Steve Thompson and produced by Brady Hood (Toy Boy). In the casting, the two main roles are played by Leo Woodall (The White Lotus) et Quintessa Swindell (Black Adam), but we also find Jason Flemyng (Benjamin Button) ou encore Sidse Babett Knudsen (The castle). A certain Ridley Scott serves as executive producer. And if that’s not enough to convince you, we’ve given you three good reasons to let yourself be carried away by the series.
Between Da Vinci Code and The Three-Body Problem
It’s not every day that a series takes mathematics as the basis for a story with global implications. Here, we are in line with these stories which use modern discoveries to rediscover the past and write the future. Ancient relics, chases, secrets hidden in numbers, conspiracies… All the bases are there for fans of thrillers like Da Vinci Codes find something to rejoice in.
Prime Target is a show that pushes us to think about concepts that escape the majority of us, but just because we don’t understand them doesn’t make them fascinating to study. Without being noticed, we are caught up in an intrigue where calculation is king. To become passionate about mathematics, you had to do it! Those who threw themselves into The Three-Body Problem on Netflix will find food for thought here, without the science fiction side.
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Prepare for the unexpected
On paper, Prime Target is not a wildly original series, calculations aside. We can even say that this is not the best that Apple TV+ has produced, although we were not far from flawless until now. After all, we’ve seen a conspiracy thriller many times before.
However, the salt of the series designed by Steve Thompson (Sherlock, Doctor Who, Deep State) is precisely to know its classics well enough to develop a surprising spider’s web. More precisely, the plot will mix as many known elements – the sprawling secret organization, the murdered mentor, the hunted duo, the traitor, etc. – with unpredictable events. We know the basics, however the execution reserves many surprises and we like to delve ever deeper into the mystery which surrounds these prime numbers.
As a result, and even though we are not particularly fans of mathematical concepts, we find ourselves wanting to continue with the next episode in the hope of finding some answers to the riddles… to be entitled to a extra layer of puzzles. Like any good thriller, the answers to questions lead to other questions and we try to untangle the thread from the ball of wool.
A quality that is growing
We’re not going to lie, the first episode of Prime Target is not the most exciting. Above all, we will be introduced to the character of Edward and his obsession with prime numbers, while sketching elements that have no place, apparently, in this very studious setting.
However, Prime Target deserves to be given a chance because each episode brings its share of new information which will shake up the protagonists and link everything together, so that we start the series out of curiosity, but we stay because She succeeded in her objective: to seize us. We feel that the show reflected its rhythm, even if it means taking the risk of losing part of the public at the start to better reward those who remain. The proof, if the beginning of Prime Target will not have particularly convinced us, after three episodes we couldn’t wait to launch the sequel. It’s not the Apple TV+ series that will get the most attention, but like the other productions of the SVoD service, it demonstrates a high standard that suits it well.
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