“Prime Target,” an eight-episode thriller premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+, has the juicy vibe of a novel you might pick up at an airport and rip through in a single flight. It has an outlandish premise, beautiful people, and it ends on a cliffhanger every episode.

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

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.

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.

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.

Leo Woodall, star of The White Lotus’s most transgressive gay sex scene, is one smart cookie in new Apple TV+ thriller, Prime Target. The British actor will lead the new eight-part mini series in the role of Cambridge post grad and queer maths whiz,