Leo Woodall plays a mathematician about to unlock the secrets of the universe, plus Kaitlin Olson stars in a comedy about a cleaner with an IQ of 160 who starts solving crimes

Could prime numbers unlock the secrets of the universe? In this mathematics drama, Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) is a brilliant Cambridge maths postgraduate who thinks they might. But will he be allowed to prove this or will his abrasive personality – and the fact that others trying to travel along the same road have clearly been stopped – prevent him from doing so? Initially at least, Prime Target suffers from featuring rather a lot of people gazing earnestly at computer screens and feverishly scribbling bewildering formulae on blackboards. But it hots up once it becomes clear that behind these ever-unspooling number sequences lie real life-and-death consequences.
Apple TV+, from Wednesday 22 January

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