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Positive:
8
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
ColliderJan 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
At times, the series could attempt to stand out a little more from the crowded pack of the spy genre, and it is also in periodic need of clarity over which force is in play for what reason, but overall, Prime Target is a well-performed, capably written, and well-structured spy thriller.
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The Mercury NewsJan 30, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Even though it telegraphs its “surprises” way too often, it’s always entertaining — even as it gets tied up into plot knots by its end. As a bonus, Martha Plimpton co-stars and Stephen Rea appears in a smaller role. They get to chew a bit of the scenery, and it’s a welcome addition to this passable thriller that’s elevated by its lead star.
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Jan 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
While the show offers moments of brilliance, especially in its early episodes, it ultimately fails to deliver on the grand potential of its ideas, leaving a story that feels more like a tantalizingly unsolved equation than a world-changing mathematical breakthrough.
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Jan 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Prime Target is playing with known formulas and well-worn tropes, turning to real-life anxieties about privacy and surveillance for narrative fodder. But in wrapping them all around maths—and a character who’d rather not be part of this story at all—the series keeps running into dead ends that are never as interesting nor as exciting as this would-be spy thriller presents them as.
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Jan 22, 2025The Observer (UK)Jan 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
I slogged on, beguiled by the strong cast (David Morrissey, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Quintessa Swindell, Fra Fee, Stephen Rea), some of whom, as is typical of prestige streamer thrillers, seem to have about three scenes each. Then a sinister maths institute was slung into the mix and the glossy tedium got too much.
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Jan 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Serves up basically competent if unmemorable action and raises worthwhile if not exactly novel debates. But it does not show the math, serving two-dimensional pawns instead of three-dimensional characters and lofty-sounding speeches instead of nuanced dialogue — and, as a result, fails to add up to much at all.
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RogerEbert.comJan 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
[Edward] is neither written well enough nor played particularly strongly to warrant any interest beyond the central relationships he finds himself at the center of. Woodall delivers each bloated line with a woodenness fitting of his name, making “Prime Target” more grating with each episode.
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Jan 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, because the audience is being pulled in a million different directions (many unneeded), viewers cannot cultivate a genuine connection with him or Taylah. Though the penultimate episode, “Prime Finder,” attempts to regain the momentum lost in previous episodes, the final scene is so bewildering and ridiculous that there is little reason to seek any conclusion.
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