If you’re expecting the sleek, playful, and totally over-the-top spy shenanigans of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you’re not going to find it in this 2024 version, not that it’s a bad thing. In fact, this show stands on its own, reinventing the spy couple into a professional partnership rather than an immediate spark that leads to marriage. This decision makes the show feel like the film’s opposite– as the longer runtime and naturalistic aura enables more focus on the incomparable Donald Glover and Maya Erskine rather than the explosions– but it makes the danger feel more unpredictable and not just action set pieces. Mr. & Mrs. Smith may not be the star-powered, guns-blazing action comedy we’re familiar with, but it’s certainly a more thoughtful, fresh take that improves on the concept.
"Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as spies-for-hire posing as husband and wife—and embody their generation’s emotional and economic malaise."
— Inkoo Kang
"It's... such a relief to watch a TV series that doesn’t strive for film-style plotting stretched over eight hours. There is some bumpiness in pacing and plotting, but Mr. & Mrs. Smith has a finely tuned sense of the world John and Jane are striving for."
— Kathryn VanArendonk
Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.
With not much tying them down, two strangers land jobs in a mysterious spy agency, though part of the job description involves new identities as a married couple.
The tone. The original Mr. & Mrs. Smith is lighthearted, sexy, but ultimately shallow, but this version is so much more serious with its moody, electronically-scored, naturalistic approach, and it allows the show to be more reflective of today’s relationships.
Brangelina who?
Berlin
1 nomination
Loved the show. Both actors gave top notch performances.
Maybe it’s an age thing, but i found it a bit shmaltzy. but good actors..