In Apple TV+’s new espionage thriller, “Prime Target,” created by Steve Thompson, Cambridge University Ph.D. candidate Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) is on the cusp of uncovering a new way to view prime numbers.

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

The new conspiracy thriller “Prime Target,” starring SAG Award winner Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus,” “One Day”) and Quintessa Swindell (“Black Adam,” “In Treatment”) debuts today on Apple TV+. Created by award-winning writer Steve Thompson (“Sherlock,

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An opening sequence of a drone flying over a busy street in Baghdad, followed by a huge explosion that leaves many casualties and a gaping hole where a row of buildings used to be, suggests that Prime Target is going to be another special forces,

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.

Leo Woodall stars in a mystery series as a young Cambridge scholar whose theories about prime numbers lead him into a web of international intrigue.

Though Ed is insistent that math is just math, many are interested in weaponizing it. That luckily doesn’t include NSA agent Taylah ( Quintessa Swindell ), who steps in to work with Ed and put together the pieces of an ever-growing puzzle.