Prime Target on Apple is possibly the dumbest show I have ever seen. Cliche ridden (he’s a maths genius, the sort who is so smart even his university professors seem like fools to him, and we know he is a maths genius because here he is stading at a black board saying maths stuff like “an even and even can never be an odd”), with a plot driven forward by everyone being dumb and with answers that dont make sense outside of the universe of the show. Imagine a 12 year old with mediocre intelligence read their first Dan Brown book and then was inspired to make a tv show in the same spirit. That is what you have here.
It could just be a coincidence of what I have watched lately, but it really feels like the big streamers have made a change to fully embrace a return to the mindless stupidity of 90s-00s network dramas. This, Paradise, the new De Niro Netflix one, all insane and dumb as shit.
My wife enjoyed this show but i agree with you, it really felt like one of those weak ITV/bbc shows, which i can understand appearing on Netflix but less so in Apple.
Wife got me watching Traitors.
We then watched Traitors US, only palatable by having an entertaining host.
Just had a look at Traitors Australia.
What a fucking dreary bunch, compounded by a dreary presenter
