Prime Target

It started off strong, then went downhill. Poor acting from some, lack of emotional connection, and no interesting relationships. Could have been good, the story line was cool but lacked execution. Not up to Apple TV standards. Previously would feel comfortable watching anything on Apple TV knowing it would be good, but this show just ruined that standard for me.

Edward was played well and he did his job well, but the rest of them were terrible. The female character from NSA was so bad, felt like I couldn't watch her. Felt like the directors were throwing everything into the mix with them going to Baghdad, France and the UK. Seemed a bit all over the place.

So called smart people, one user wrote, and that's a typical defense mechanism used anytime someone encounters someone smarter than they are. It's very hard to live in a world of feeling uncomfortable which is why most of us either avoid learning more or prefer to live in ignorance. Also, never acknowledging doing either and pretending they're doing the opposite.

This is a bold series. I am impressed at what has been presented so far. Eager for more and frustrated only two episodes are available now.

I think it's hard for people to accept things they don't understand, so I hope this show keeps people like me engaged. Leo Woodall has impressed me in White Lotus and Me Before You, so I'll be here to see how it all plays out.

Thankfully, it's not a blow em up or fight em up show, as I prefer thinking type drama shows. Things that make you think. For anyone out there that thinks they already know, they don't at all.

Here's to keeping an open mind, cheers!

Alfred Hitchcock said that Maguffin shouldn't be revealed because it shows how silly plots are. This series tipped it's hand very early and sure enough, Hitchcock was right. A driven but maverick PhD mathematics student is working on prime numbers but the security services don't want that. Cue mysterious deaths and ancient artifacts. A kind of Indiana Jones and the Lost Integral.

There's a bit of really shallow exposition about prime numbers and the preposterous idea that all the university library books have been deleted. Protagonist gets upset rather than going to Amazon next day delivery. I just kept yawning.

So we have a mid 20-ish NSA agent stationed in the most expensive property in France. So we have a bob-cut mid-50-ish NSA bigwig, clueless director who nonchalantly orders multiple murders and then rescinds those directives in the next breath. We have a 40-ish NSA thug agent whose entire acting repertoire consists of "smell the broken wind" acting and a constant sneer. To top off the horrendous miscasting of this disaster, we add a pretty boy math whiz without a clue.

This was a simply dreadful program that never even minimally explains the root of the story. Too bad the budget did not include decent writers or passable actors.

It's not quite clear who the audience is for this series. Is it trying to appeal to people wanting to engage with intriguing scientific theories? Or is it trying to appeal to Gen Z feeling misunderstood for their genius?

On the one hand teasing intriguing questions on the nature of science and mathematics. And how archaeology may unearth interesting new theories.

And then, a supposed math genius who in the Cambridge library system searches for "prime numbers"... And then doesn't find anything in the library catalogue about prime numbers because it's been deleted.

I mean... it isn't consistent to its own universe. And that is very disrupting.