Mr. & Mrs. Smith Sizzled With Sexual Tension. Donald Glover’s Reboot Does Something Else Entirely.

You’d think that Hollywood would know better than to try to re-create a film so dependent on the singular steaminess of its leads—and yet, like most things you may adore from barely five iPhone generations ago, it has indeed been remade. The 2024 version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith is Donald Glover’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, an Amazon Prime Video series that premieres on Friday, starring Glover as John and PEN15’s Maya Erskine as Jane. After a multiyear wait and the departure of Erskine’s predecessor, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the only question on anyone’s mind remains: Is this Mr. & Mrs. Smith as sexy as the original? The couple’s therapy sessions, peppered throughout the 2005 movie, are in the series consolidated into one full episode—with an exciting guest star as the therapist—in which John and Jane discuss their growing resentments. 2024’s Mrs. & Mrs. Smith is unafraid to be scathing to its main characters, to make you unsure if you like them, while they themselves are unsure if they even like each other anymore.