Amazon’s ‘Mr. And Mrs. Smith’ Season 2 Lands Yellowjackets’ Standout Star

Amazon’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith season 2 is spooling up, which is welcome news as the show only premiered in 2024, meaning it may not be an interminable wait for the next season. Now, it’s finally secured its main couple.

That would be Mark Eydelshteyn, recently of Best Picture Winner Anora and the standout star of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, at least the one that’s still alive, Sophie Thatcher (Ella Purnell is certainly the other).

Thatcher is also the star of a number of praised horror movies in the last few years alone, including Heretic and Companion, with a small role in MaXXXine as well. She’s a quickly rising star, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith is lucky to have her.

Yes, she and Eydelshteyn are taking over for Donald Glover and Maya Erskine from season 1. That season ended on a cliffhanger where it was implied both may have been killed by rival Smiths, but that was never conclusive, and it’s possible they may appear in season 2 in some capacity.

The show is going young, very young, with its central couple this time around. Eydelshteyn is just 23 and Thatcher is 24. I suppose that’s not too young to get into the spy business, but that’s about 15 years younger than Glove and Erskine were in their season. This is, in effect, something of an anthology, albeit obviously with a shared world. It’s a much more grounded take on the concept than we saw from the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie version from 2005 (wow, was that seriously 20 years ago?).

The first season of Mr. and Mrs. Smith reviewed quite well in 2024, with a 90% from critics. Its audience score was a decent amount lower, a 66%, and I find myself more in that camp. It had good performances, especially from Erskine, but in the grand landscape of TV, I didn’t find that it stood out all that much. But I am very much looking forward to seeing what Thatcher does in this, and if Eydelshteyn being from Russia (and being very Russian in Anora) will be a key part of the story this time around.

There’s a large story in Deadline right now about how Mr. and Mrs. Smith was moving away from filming in New York and over to Los Angeles due to tax credits from that state. Presumably, the storyline will be based around that city, rather than pretending that locations in LA were actually New York, which would make little sense.

Regardless, it’s going to be very interesting to see how the show evolves here when it arrives some time in 2026.

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