‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Renewed for Season 2, Confirming Cliffhanger Ending Will Be Addressed

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 1 finale.]

That Mr. & Mrs. Smith cliffhanger ending won’t be the end for the spy drama. Mr. & Mrs. Smith has been renewed for Season 2 at Prime Video. The streamer announced the renewal during its inaugural upfront presentation in New York City on Tuesday, May 14.

The reimagined take on the 2005 movie debuted with all eight of its episodes on Friday, February 2, showing the more flawed John and Jane, played by the excellent pair that is Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. The series debuted at No. 4 on the Nielsen streaming Top 10 Overall chart on February 29, with nearly one billion minutes viewed. It was a certified fit for the streamer, but the several months between the series debut and its renewal gave reason to worry about the show’s future. Worry, no more!

“We are excited to announce that a second season of our groundbreaking spy series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is in the works for our global Prime Video customers,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement. “The success of the first season, with its incredibly modern, sexy reinvention of the original film, is a testament to the brilliant creators Donald Glover and Francesa Sloane. We are proud to bring you another season filled with unforgettable journeys and new adventures.”

Prime Video also confirmed with the renewal announcement that Francesca Sloane will return as showrunner for Season 2. The series is produced by New Regency and Amazon MGM Studios.

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In Mr. & Mrs. Smith, two lonely strangers land a job working for a mysterious spy agency that offers them a glorious life of espionage, wealth, world travel, and a dream brownstone in Manhattan. The catch: new identities in an arranged marriage as Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their complex cover story becomes even more complicated when they catch real feelings for each other. What’s riskier, espionage or marriage?

The Mr. & Mrs. Smith finale ended on a major cliffhanger that left the fate of the main characters and the series at large up in the air. Similar to the 2005 movie, Glover and Erskine’s John and Jane Smith were being targeted by other Smiths, only this time they weren’t assigned to kill each other. They learned the true job description for super high-risk Smiths: killing other Smiths. The season ended with a shootout between Glover, Erskine, and Parker Posey that left John gravely injured. With Season 2 now confirmed, fans will find out if John and Jane survived.

The finale cliffhanger was created to work as a series finale just in case it didn’t score a renewal. Not every finale cliffhanger such as this works out, but the Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 1 ending would have been a satisfying, open-to-interpretation conclusion if it were the end. Thankfully, it’s not! Series co-creator Francesca Sloane previously told TV Insider that they definitely had plans for Season 2.

“We’re very proud of telling the story in the way that we did as one complete story, but you guys have to keep watching Season 1 to give us a Season 2,” she said. “We definitely do have ideas for it.”

The finale features some of the few deliberate callouts to the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie film. There’s a gunfight that destroys the Smiths’ home, and there’s a scene where the couple reveals all the lies they’ve told each other since they met. Sloane told TV Insider that those callouts, plus the therapy scenes with the perfectly cast guest star Sarah Paulson, were the most appealing scenes from the movie that they wanted to include in their version (Glover is a series co-creator and EP in addition to starring). Other than that, these Smiths are very different from Pitt and Jolie’s.

“I hope people see themselves in it in some capacity,” Sloane said of their “awkward, lonely reject” Smiths. “I think sometimes when you write things that are really specific and from the heart, we all borrow things from our own lives in a lot of ways. I think that sometimes you can strike a chord and people can resonate with that.”

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