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Donald Glover and Maya Erskine Make a New and Improved ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’: TV Review


The remake of the 2005 action comedy stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine as married spies in New York City.

& Mrs. Smith” is better remembered as tabloid fodder than a film, and for good reason; an explosive, adulterous romance between two A-list movie stars (future spouses Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) would overshadow even a masterpiece. Jolie and Pitt played married assassin-spies pitted against one another, but screenwriter Simon Kinberg mostly mined this premise for stale jokes about suburban boredom, leading to a battle of the sexes based on gendered stereotypes. & Mrs. Smith” names its episodes for benchmarks like “First Date” and “First Vacation.” As John and Jane move from tentative flirtation to infatuation to settled item, they find themselves in fairly common situations: bonding over their disdain for another couple; trading notes on their childhoods; discovering they may have different priorities.

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