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Let’s be clear from the beginning: Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the new Prime Video series, is nothing like the 2005 original. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a beast of its own, drastically different from how it handles its leads, John (Donald Glover) and Jane (Maya Erskine), even though it may use a much used plot technique of undercover spies.
By immersing a romantic comedy within the intense realm of global espionage, the programme nearly deceives viewers into becoming invested in a fictitious union.
If Villanelle in Killing Eve got her tasks through mysterious postcards, then John and Jane receive their instructions from an anonymous chatbot-like character named “Hihi.” To emphasise the contemporary setting in which the opera is set, Hihi’s organisation hired and paired John and Jane to perform “high-risk” tasks while feigning marriage.
John and Jane finally close the deal in a New York brownstone when two wedding rings arrive in an envelope. This marks the beginning of their cautious foray into a risky profession.
The eight episode titles of the show reveal what Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane intended. The names of the episodes, which range from “First Date” to “First Vacation” to “Infidelity,” highlight the minute attention to detail the programme pays to the details of John and Jane’s relationship.
After responding to certain questions on a screen, two seemingly lonely strangers are paired up and thrust into a relationship that has its share of ups and downs.
While John and Jane traverse their relationship milestones, Sloane and Grover add a tonne of weapons and explosions to this typical script. They express hope in the nervous moments when everything seems like it’s going to blow up, flirt in the unremarkable moments of packing up before a hit job, and comfort each other in the exhausted and bloodied aftermath.
As an Executive Producer, Hiro Murai’s influence can be felt in majority of the show’s humorous situations that have a deadpan, modern aesthetic. MR. & MRS. SMITH SEASON 1
Encouraged by a plethora of guest stars, such as Paul Dano, John Turturro, Wagner Moura, Parker Posey, and Sharon Horgan, Mr. & Mrs. Smith provides a steady stream of assignments as John and Jane go from novice spies to experienced agents.
You quickly discover that the show starts to move forward, bringing us weeks and months into the future, in contrast to the first mission, where we were privy to minute details. Their growing professional proficiency also makes it clear to us that their relationship isn’t going well.
What appears to be a fair attempt to weigh the excitement of a hit job against the unknowns of a new relationship soon begins to favour the latter. Unavoidably, the programme will be compared to FX’s The Americans (2013–18), which followed two KGB agents who pretended to be a married American couple.
You could consider Mr. & Mrs. Smith to be its more contemporary, less political cousin, but it can’t quite withstand close examination.
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The area where Mr. & Mrs. Smith decided to take short cuts is where The Americans really shined. The relationship between John and Jane is carefully examined, yet the two people are left in isolation. John and Jane, who are strangers to one another, are likewise not introduced to the audiences individually.
It makes the tension between them seem a little stale, whether that is a literary decision or something that was left out because of time limits. More exploration of these individuals’ decisions and the society in which they are wreaking havoc would have been beneficial for a show that would have preferred to focus on the problems in their relationship rather than the mystery of espionage.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith offers a darker, more nuanced, and espionage-infused perspective on the obstacles and hotspots in modern relationships. With eight episodes, it’s also quite easy to binge.
You go in expecting high-stakes espionage, but you quickly learn that the actual stakes are in John and Jane’s love. There is a lot of room for growth in what should have been an extremely captivating event.
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