Prime Target

[Doctor Q]

Prime Target is an Apple TV+ show premiering Wednesday, January 22, 2025, with 8 episodes through March 5.

It's about a brilliant student who is about to find a pattern in prime numbers that could break security all over the world. If this were real, we'd be talking about public-key cryptography or even quantum computer factoring.

It's a conspiracy thriller starring Leo Woodall as the mathematician and Quintessa Swindell as a U.S. National Security Agency agent.

It's bound to have lots of intrigue, action, and who-can-you-trust drama, to please the general public, and probably not much realistic technical talk about about math and prime numbers, which as a math nerd I'd really enjoy. Either way, it sounds like a worthwhile way to spend viewing time on Wednesdays.

Here's the trailer:

 

[Expos of 1969]

I am certainly going to give it a go. However, I would be more hopeful if the name of the series started with the letter "S", as do my favorites so far ... Slow Horses, Silo and Severance.

 

[maihan]

Choice of actors don't fit the characters they play.
Like watching something from the 70s

 

[IRC4Ever]

Two things that bugged me after 3 episodes:

Spoiler: Spoilers for episodes 1-3

Since the advent of catalytic converters in the 1970s, it is very difficult, if not close to impossible, to commit suicide using car exhaust.

The professor's ID would have been canceled very soon after the university confirmed his death, if not almost immediately. Quite sure a place like Cambridge would not be so lax in its policies, given access to grades, research etc the ID could provide. Source: worked many years in IT for a state university system.

Agree the actors do not fit their roles. In general, it seems a bit DaVinci Code-eque to me.