A brilliant young mathematician becomes an enemy of the deep state in a paranoid new potboiler streaming on Apple TV+.

In Prime Target ’s case, the notion that prime numbers are critical to computer passwords gets extrapolated into a situation where governments and shady corporate concerns have hired people to secretly watch all the world’s thinkers who might get too close to uncovering dangerous math facts,

With a lead who's out of his depth and an absurd plot, the new Apple TV+ series rarely amounts to anything worthwhile, writes our reviewer.