The greatest of the many triumphs of the new spy caper Mr & Mrs Smith is that it handles the sex so well. In the 2005 film, which was mostly an experiment to see whether the combined presence of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt could set celluloid on fire, the stars were spouses who discovered that they were secretly working for rival agencies and had been commissioned to kill each other.
In this eight-part Prime Video series, the reimagining is almost total. This “John” and “Jane” – played by Donald Glover and Maya Erskine – are strangers who are ready, for reasons that reveal themselves over time, to sign their lives over to a mysterious (but well‑paying) organisation and pose as a married couple. How long will it take them to fall in love and complicate their already fraught situation beyond measure? Let’s find out!
