Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon Prime 2024): B
Last night I was trying to find something new to watch to distract me from the building and mystifying pain in my left knee. I eventually found this series and gave a try while also playing a game on my laptop.
I felt it started off kinda slow and I wasn't sure I'd keep watching it. But ... something about it kept me going, and I watched the first four of eight episodes last night before going to bed.
Tonight I wanted to keep watching, and then to try to finish it, because I'm teleworking tomorrow and I'm caught up on sleep.
The episodes kept getting better, and then the final episode had all the crazy things smashed up together.
After each episode I'd skim the recap over at Vulture because I didn't want to miss anything, and that helped, there was the occasional plot point I missed, but there were a lot of plot points missing, I mean the plot was scattered and never fully explained.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith are a made up couple with made up names, who were hired separately to work as an espionage team together, pretending to be a married couple, but we never learn anything useful about their employer, and the various missions they work on don't form a story arc, there's not much backstory, and there's no mystery to uncover.
They're not even any good at espionage, hah, it's NOTHING like 007. And then it turns out they're not even any good at pretending to be a married couple, as they fall in love and then have an ever more painful-to-watch dysfunctional relationship.
I'm sort of wondering why did I keep watching this, but there turned out to be a quality to the writing and the acting and the casting of the guest stars, it ended up being about people fucking up, and hurting each other, and then they keep fucking up, and there's no happily-ever-after, only an abrupt ending.
At least it wasn't formulaic? I think I would mainly ding it for starting out slowly and indecisively, so I'll give it a "B". If you can stick with it, I think you'll find it rewarding as it explores their fucked up relationship, with some humorous guest stars along the way, and building tension toward and into the finale.
I felt it started off kinda slow and I wasn't sure I'd keep watching it. But ... something about it kept me going, and I watched the first four of eight episodes last night before going to bed.
Tonight I wanted to keep watching, and then to try to finish it, because I'm teleworking tomorrow and I'm caught up on sleep.
The episodes kept getting better, and then the final episode had all the crazy things smashed up together.
After each episode I'd skim the recap over at Vulture because I didn't want to miss anything, and that helped, there was the occasional plot point I missed, but there were a lot of plot points missing, I mean the plot was scattered and never fully explained.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith are a made up couple with made up names, who were hired separately to work as an espionage team together, pretending to be a married couple, but we never learn anything useful about their employer, and the various missions they work on don't form a story arc, there's not much backstory, and there's no mystery to uncover.
They're not even any good at espionage, hah, it's NOTHING like 007. And then it turns out they're not even any good at pretending to be a married couple, as they fall in love and then have an ever more painful-to-watch dysfunctional relationship.
I'm sort of wondering why did I keep watching this, but there turned out to be a quality to the writing and the acting and the casting of the guest stars, it ended up being about people fucking up, and hurting each other, and then they keep fucking up, and there's no happily-ever-after, only an abrupt ending.
At least it wasn't formulaic? I think I would mainly ding it for starting out slowly and indecisively, so I'll give it a "B". If you can stick with it, I think you'll find it rewarding as it explores their fucked up relationship, with some humorous guest stars along the way, and building tension toward and into the finale.