Prime Target stars Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell on which movies inspired the new Apple TV Plus show, memorizing math formulas and where it could go next
Prime Target stars Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell on which movies inspired the new Apple TV Plus show, memorizing math formulas and where it could go next
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A TV show about the mystical potency of math. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The new Apple TV Plus Original series Prime Target is the latest star-studded TV show to be released on the streamer that we've been excited to watch in January 2025.
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In it, Leo Woodall, who we last saw in the Netflix rom-com One Day, is cast as an awkward math genius working on a secret project to do with prime numbers that's unknowingly under surveillance by a government security agent played by the star from HBO's Euphoria Quintessa Swindell.
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The two are forced to team up when the young graduate, known as Edward Brooks in the series, is on the verge of a significant breakthrough that could have a catastrophic global economic impact by wiping out every computer's security system. After watching all eight episodes of Prime Target (episode 3 will be released tomorrow, January 29), I'd say the best way to describe the series is Good Will Hunting meets The Da Vinci Code – imagine Will Hunting solves the world’s most uncrackable code – which Woodall and Swindell confirm are very much films that were part of its inspiration.
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"Good Will Hunting was one of the movies that Brady [Hood, who worked on the Netflix series Top Boy,] had used as an inspiration," Woodall told TechRadar. But there are plenty of others, too. "Brady had [film] references for the general tone [of the series] and one that he suggested that I really love, because I'm a massive fan of Gary Oldman, was Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," Swindell added.
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