EntertainmentStreamingAmazon Prime Video’s No.1 show deserves its 89% Rotten Tomatoes ratingTwo spies for the price of oneWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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It was always going to take something special to dethroneReacherfrom the number one spot onAmazon Prime Video. We now know what that something is.Mr & Mrs Smithis a brilliant new series reimagining the iconic story of two spies disguised as a married couple. Having watched the first couple of episodes, I’m all in.
Episode one opens with a brutal firefight, just to prove that this show isn’t pure romcom and then we start to get to know our leads. This is done in a brilliant way with each of the couples performing an anonymous interview with a computer that’s part love tester and interrogator. In this sequence and throughout the opening episode, both characters are given more characterisation than the leads in some entire shows, (I know that Jane likes coffee and John likes Green Tea - after one episode!).
That first mission is a great allegory for the show too, the couple get carried away with the fun of it, almost like they actually have been married for ages, but then it ends with a very sudden return to earth. They have signed up for ‘high-risk’ operations on purpose and this is life or death stuff even if it seems like a game.
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