Now, along comes Prime Target, an eight-part thriller from Apple TV+. This show does not fall into the bracket of the previous examples.

“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.

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.

Apple TV+ is known for two types of programming: sci-fi and suspense. In “Prime Target,” the platform’s latest entry in the suspense category, Edward Brooks, a brilliant young math postgraduate,

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.

Leo Woodall and Quinessa Swindell, co-stars of Apple TV+'s math thriller "Prime Target," discuss whether they did well at school sums. (Jan. 20)

The new Apple TV+ series stars Leo Woodall as a math genius, and President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated for his second term.

A mathematician’s groundbreaking discovery puts him in the crosshairs of dangerous forces in this gripping new Apply TV+ series. What if you held the key to every computer system in the world? And how far would someone go to stop you?

You don't have to wonder when new episodes of Prime Target will be released. Apple TV+ has confirmed that after the first two episodes of the series drop on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at