Mr. and Mrs. Smith

What’s it about?

Two strangers sign up with a spy agency that offers them a life of espionage, danger, and wealth. The catch: new identities in an arranged marriage and unforgiving tasks.

The facts

• Created by Francesca Sloane and Donald Glover
• English language
• 8 episodes about 50 minutes each
• Starring Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, and Paul Dano
• Inspired by the 2005 film of the same name, Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Why did it get this rating?

This show was self-rated by Amazon. You can find out more about self-rating by streaming providers here.

Violence, threat, and Graphic Violence

Characters are constantly under threat or in peril. There are scenes where characters are held hostage often by gunpoint, chased and shot at. In one scene, characters kill a bunch of armed people in a dark shed with a machete to escape – the violence is covered in darkness; we do see brief blood splatter and hear the carnage unfold. They are later shown to be covered in blood.

Gun violence and physical violence is frequent. Guns are shot frequently, and we see punching, kicking, and choking.

Injury detail is often shown. We see a bullet hole on a character’s cheek before revealing a larger wound on the other side of their face briefly. There is blood and blood spray after characters are shot or stabbed.

Content that may disturb

Making it easier to hide, two characters snap a dead body’s arms and leg. This isn’t shown in detail but we do hear the bones snap and the characters are obviously disgusted by this.

Sexual content, sexual references and sex scenes

Characters have sex, no nudity is shown but we do see movement, hear moaning and characters undress.

A porn site is shown, the models are covered but we do hear dirty talk. Later the characters joke about watching cannibal porn.

Throughout the show characters make sexual references and talk about sex. For example, in one scene we see a character stroking another’s penis in a bathtub to warm it up after becoming hyperthermic - no nudity is shown. The character jokingly suggests putting their mouth on it.

Drug use

Brief scene where a character snorts a line of unidentifiable white powder. It is implied it is cocaine.

Characters inject themselves with a syringe that makes them delirious and act in a drunk manner.

Offensive language

Assh*le, sh*t, f*cking, f*ck, a*s, and mother*cker is mentioned.

Further information

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