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Amazon’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith season 2 is spooling up, which is welcome information because the present solely premiered in 2024, that means it will not be an interminable anticipate the subsequent season. Now, it’s lastly secured its primary couple.
That might be Mark Eydelshteyn, just lately of Finest Image Winner Anora and the standout star of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, not less than the one which’s nonetheless alive, Sophie Thatcher (Ella Purnell is actually the opposite).
Thatcher can be the star of plenty of praised horror films in the previous couple of years alone, together with Heretic and Companion, with a small function in MaXXXine as effectively. She’s a rapidly rising star, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith is fortunate to have her.
Sure, she and Eydelshteyn are taking up for Donald Glover and Maya Erskine from season 1. That season ended on a cliffhanger the place it was implied each might have been killed by rival Smiths, however that was by no means conclusive, and it’s attainable they could seem in season 2 in some capability.
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The present goes younger, very younger, with its central couple this time round. Eydelshteyn is simply 23 and Thatcher is 24. I suppose that’s not too younger to get into the spy enterprise, however that’s about 15 years youthful than Glove and Erskine have been of their season. That is, in impact, one thing of an anthology, albeit clearly with a shared world. It’s a way more grounded tackle the idea than we noticed from the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie model from 2005 (wow, was that severely 20 years in the past?).
The primary season of Mr. and Mrs. Smith reviewed fairly effectively in 2024, with a 90% from critics. Its viewers rating was a good quantity decrease, a 66%, and I discover myself extra in that camp. It had good performances, particularly from Erskine, however within the grand panorama of TV, I didn’t discover that it stood out all that a lot. However I’m very a lot wanting ahead to seeing what Thatcher does on this, and if Eydelshteyn being from Russia (and being very Russian in Anora) might be a key a part of the story this time round.
There’s a big story in Deadline proper now about how Mr. and Mrs. Smith was shifting away from filming in New York and over to Los Angeles attributable to tax credit from that state. Presumably, the storyline might be primarily based round that metropolis, reasonably than pretending that areas in LA have been truly New York, which might make little sense.
Regardless, it’s going to be very attention-grabbing to see how the present evolves right here when it arrives a while in 2026.
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