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An Architectural Digest Home Tour Turned Spy Show
In Prime series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Donald Glover and Maya Erskine achieve their dreams through some truly terrible work-life balance.
John and Jane have failed at earlier attempts at careers and relationships, and they’ve accepted a position at a mysterious, unnamed company that interacts with them through the distinctly 2024 method of corporate communications written as casual, friendly text messages. It’s episodic, with each of its eight installments (all of which premiered today) tackling a new mission — spying on a woman in the Italian Alps, administering a truth serum to a wealthy buyer at an auction — while also being framed around a relationship milestone, from first date through couples therapy. The slower pace lets the show dawdle on other themes: a running subcurrent about race, as John and Jane approach missions that require them to blend into different kinds of settings; a recurring interest in how they think about parenting, both in terms of their own childhoods and their imagined future.
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