MR. & MRS. SMITH Review: A Fresh Revamp Profiling Matrimony In The World Of Espionage
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is now streaming on Prime Video. Picking up on the creative potential from director Doug Liman’s 2005 romantic spy thriller of the same name, the eight-part episodic of Amazon MGM’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith takes on a much more offbeat tone with a world-expanding vision that plays more on situational comedy and drama tones than genre fans might expect. The result is a smartly-crafted and well-fleshed out take on the property from creators Francesca Sloane and actor Donald Glover who headlines the show in title form next to Maya Erskine. The treatment this time around lends a psychological profile of our main characters, government assassins working for a black ops agency that assigns taskes ranging from low-risk to super high-risk. From the outset of their arranged partnership screened as a marriage, both John (Glover) and Jane (Erskine) are tasked with acquainting themselves with one another, oftentimes […]