Keeping up with the Smiths
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shallownessBefore that, such sad news about Strictly's Robin Windsor dying so young.
Mr & Mrs Smith - 1.2 Second Date
This felt a bit more Mission Impossible-y, because the mission/job involved attending a black-tie silent auction, and the couple took a big step forward in their relationship. But I still feel slightly at a remove. The big guest stars continue, with Paul Dano turning up as a very nosy neighbour (I may have missed it, but I don’t think the character gave his name) and John Turturro as a slightly louche rich target. It’s clear Jane is a cat person, not a dog person, which I count in her favour. Max the cat may possibly have the ability to walk through doors. I wouldn’t read too much into him showing John some loyalty, because cats do their own thing for their own reasons (usually with an eye to humans feeding them.) But we got some manipulation from Jane – I hadn’t really registered that she had cannibal porn on her computer, just that it was porn, but had assumed it was a set up, after coolly going through John’s stuff. There was more feeling each other out about their motivations – they say it’s money, but their target’s point about loneliness felt more accurate – and Mr HiHi/their employers.
All dapper and dressed up for the mission, John decided to pretend to be wait staff, leaving Jane to circulate and try to get their target alone, slightly panicking, but she came up with something. And then it went very weird, what with them having to pretend to be dogs (and submissive) and then kissing as dogs. Because they still haven’t got their non-verbal communication going (WILL THEY PASS THE BROCCOLI TEST BY THE END OF THE FIRST SEASON?), they both injected their target with truth serum, going against orders and eventually leading to their target’s death. Apart from talking about his daughter, most of what he had to say (about his and other people’s ill-gotten gains) was captured on other people’s cameras. And they had to deal with the dead body. Disposing of a dead body together is definitely a relationship milestone. Fortunately, they had a Chekhov’s composter!
After John got back at Jane for the cannibal porn, they passed another milestone, tying back to the idea of kissing your spouse and letting your no-good day go, but with the added layer of how they got married (if they did) and their both wanting distance from the equally bad day. The kissing got heated fast and led to sex (before the third date if you go by the title, but, obviously, what with the marriage licence, it’s a strange old relationship.) I hoped they’d both brushed their teeth given they were nearly retching earlier. Unlike them, we knew that their employers were holding their failure as a strike against them. We may also have a different view of what said employers think they’re doing, putting two strangers together as a couple because of the prologue. I suppose we’re also meant to wonder whether the dog-owning neighbour has something to do with their employers.
Mr & Mrs Smith - 1.2 Second Date
This felt a bit more Mission Impossible-y, because the mission/job involved attending a black-tie silent auction, and the couple took a big step forward in their relationship. But I still feel slightly at a remove. The big guest stars continue, with Paul Dano turning up as a very nosy neighbour (I may have missed it, but I don’t think the character gave his name) and John Turturro as a slightly louche rich target. It’s clear Jane is a cat person, not a dog person, which I count in her favour. Max the cat may possibly have the ability to walk through doors. I wouldn’t read too much into him showing John some loyalty, because cats do their own thing for their own reasons (usually with an eye to humans feeding them.) But we got some manipulation from Jane – I hadn’t really registered that she had cannibal porn on her computer, just that it was porn, but had assumed it was a set up, after coolly going through John’s stuff. There was more feeling each other out about their motivations – they say it’s money, but their target’s point about loneliness felt more accurate – and Mr HiHi/their employers.
All dapper and dressed up for the mission, John decided to pretend to be wait staff, leaving Jane to circulate and try to get their target alone, slightly panicking, but she came up with something. And then it went very weird, what with them having to pretend to be dogs (and submissive) and then kissing as dogs. Because they still haven’t got their non-verbal communication going (WILL THEY PASS THE BROCCOLI TEST BY THE END OF THE FIRST SEASON?), they both injected their target with truth serum, going against orders and eventually leading to their target’s death. Apart from talking about his daughter, most of what he had to say (about his and other people’s ill-gotten gains) was captured on other people’s cameras. And they had to deal with the dead body. Disposing of a dead body together is definitely a relationship milestone. Fortunately, they had a Chekhov’s composter!
After John got back at Jane for the cannibal porn, they passed another milestone, tying back to the idea of kissing your spouse and letting your no-good day go, but with the added layer of how they got married (if they did) and their both wanting distance from the equally bad day. The kissing got heated fast and led to sex (before the third date if you go by the title, but, obviously, what with the marriage licence, it’s a strange old relationship.) I hoped they’d both brushed their teeth given they were nearly retching earlier. Unlike them, we knew that their employers were holding their failure as a strike against them. We may also have a different view of what said employers think they’re doing, putting two strangers together as a couple because of the prologue. I suppose we’re also meant to wonder whether the dog-owning neighbour has something to do with their employers.
