TV review: Maths thriller Prime Target turns a decent premise into thin gruel

It's like they crossed The Jackal with the The Da Vinci Code and took out half the thrills

Leo Woodall in Prime Target. There’s a good story in here, but at eight episodes it’s stretched beyond breaking point

Prime Target (Apple TV+) starts quickly. And then it stops.

The opening scene is a crowded street in Baghdad with a mother buying ice cream for her daughter. This is the Middle East in a TV thriller, so we all know the explosion is coming. When it does, mother and daughter plunge into a hidden crypt, which turns out to be the legendary House of Wisdom, buried after the siege of Baghdad 900 years ago.