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Critics can't get enough of new TV series based on Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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Updated 15:50 2 Feb 2024 GMTPublished 12:32 2 Feb 2024 GMT

Critics can't get enough of new TV series based on Mr. & Mrs. Smith

If the critics like it, we're going to watch it. Just saying.

Tom Earnshaw

Tom Earnshaw

When a new show is released on Netflix, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video, you know the drill. It's time to see what percentage its scoring online and whether it's worth the precious spare time we have.

We're talking IMDb, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes. We might as well bookmark them because it's only a matter of time until we head back.

Well, those checking out a brand new show on Prime Video today (2 February) will be in luck, as it is leaving critics well and truly impressed.

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The show stars Glover and Erskine.
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Starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in leading roles, it's a new TV show based off of a 2005 film starring Hollywood heavyweights Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The TV show also stars Sarah Paulson, Ron Perlman, and Alexander Skarsgard.

Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge had originally been cast in the new show's leading female role but exited over creative differences with Glover.

Back in 2005, the off-screen story took the headlines at the time, with Pitt and Jolie saying they fell for each other while filming the movie. Pitt famously got divorced from Friends star Jennifer Aniston around the same time.

In the 2005 film, Pitt and Jolie appear as a standard upper-middle-class married couple.

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They then find out that they're both assassins belonging to competing agencies, both tasked with the job of killing the other.

The film is Mr. & Mrs. Smith and it's a title that has also been given to the new Prime Video series loosely based off of the same premise.

Things are a little different for Glover and Erskine. Watch the trailer below:

They're two spies are paired up together to impersonate a married couple, known as John and Jane Smith (the same character names as Pitt and Jolie).

What follows is shoot outs, explosions, and a personal story between the two main characters that comes across as charming and real due to those playing the roles.

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Their chemistry really is important to the show being a success; which it instantly is, according to critics.

The new series is full of action.
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Over on Rotten Tomatoes, Mr. & Mrs. Smith holds a rather lovely 91 per cent rating with the experts.

Dave Nemetz, of TV Line, said: "Erskine is fantastic in this, making a sizzling pair with Glover in a funny, breezy reimagining that’s half action-packed spy games and half cute rom-com, and equally adept at both halves."

Nick Hilton, of the Independent, said it is a brilliant take on the 'nonsensical' Pitt and Jolie film.

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He wrote: "For a show about two super spies, based on a nonsensical Brangelina thriller, it is remarkable for its honest, relatable depiction of a relationship between two disaffected millennials."

Pitt and Jolie in the 2005 film version of Mr and Mrs Smith.
20th Century Fox

And Alan Sepinwall, from Rolling Stone, said: "It cleverly inverts the movie’s premise.

"It blends the best elements of retro TV and modern TV, and deftly balances the ridiculousness of the core idea with the danger of it."

Mr & Mrs Smith runs for eight episodes, with it available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.

Featured Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video

Topics: TV and Film, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Celebrity, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie

Tom Earnshaw
Tom Earnshaw

Tom joined LADbible Group in 2024, currently working as SEO Lead across all brands including LADbible, UNILAD, SPORTbible, Tyla, UNILAD Tech, and GAMINGbible. He moved to the company from Reach plc where he enjoyed spells as a content editor and senior reporter for one of the country's most-read local news brands, LancsLive. When he's not in work, Tom spends his adult life as a suffering Manchester United supporter after a childhood filled with trebles and Premier League titles. You can't have it all forever, I suppose.

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