The Mr and Mrs Smith reboot has landed on Amazon Prime and is already being dubbed the sexiest series on TV, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine as spies trying to save their marriage. We get into why this show is a million times better than the iconic Noughties film, covering everything from the Brangelina curse, to why original co-writer/ Mrs Smith Phoebe Waller-Bridge exited early on.

Next is our cinema pick for the week, American Fiction, a publishing satire about a black writer who writes a ‘stereotypically ghetto’ novel as a joke, only for it to become a literary hit. We discuss how accurately the film skewers white liberals as well as the concept of selling out for commercial gain, which brought us seamlessly onto the highly relevant new Vox article Everyone’s A Sell Out Now. Finally, a review of the hotly-anticipated new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’  iconic One Day in all its gorgeous nostalgia, with your cheat-sheet guides to leads Leo Woodall (White Lotus) and Ambika Mod (This is going To Hurt). 

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Recommendations covered: 

• Mr and Mrs Smith on Amazon Prime
• How Francesca Sloane Reimagined a More Relatable ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ The Hollywood Reporter
• Maya Erskine: ‘I looked at Angelina Jolie and thought, well, I can’t be her’ Fiona Sturges for The Guardian
• American Fiction, in cinemas now
• Everyone’s A Sell Out Now by Rachel Jennings for Vox
• One Day on Netflix
• Rev on BBC iPlayer
• Cat In Disbelief Of Dog’s Breath on TikTok

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