There'll be comparisons made. That's what we do as humans.
But the new Mr & Mrs Smith television series differs considerably from the 2005 film of the same name.
In the film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as John and Jane Smith, the assassin couple discover they are secretly working for rival agencies and have been hired to kill each other.
Meanwhile, in the new eight-part Prime Video series starring and co-created by Donald Glover (Atlanta, Swarm) and starring Maya Erskine (Pen15), the titular characters are strangers masquerading as a married couple who undertake a series of missions together.
When they start to catch feelings for each other, tension builds.
Everyday love with spy stakes
Co-creator of the series Francesca Sloane, who worked with Glover on Atlanta, outlines in the production notes that good spies need to be "masters at lying".
"On the other end of that, in order to be in a really healthy relationship, you have to be really honest," she said.
Bringing those two things together, she feels is "the heartbeat and the impulse of the entire series."
"What would a series feel like if our heroes weren't the two most beautiful people on the planet, but instead, were two lonely people, two underdogs, wanting more from life than what they currently had?" Sloane posed.
"What if our John and Jane could be anyone — could be you and me?
"And lastly, but most importantly, how can two people let their guards down to fall in love with each other while simultaneously putting their lives on the line?
"What does love look like with spy stakes?
"This show is about a relationship. It's about being clumsy humans. It's about being relatable."
And that's the key to the new series — expressed best through the wry humour that litters each episode, all of this when the consequences could be deadly.
Glover points out that writing the script during the pandemic influenced the outcome.
"A lot of the themes in it deal with the emotions we all had being locked up in a house," he said in an interview provided to media by Amazon.
The TV series is slower paced than the film – which makes sense – there are an additional six hours to build up to the action.
And it's satisfying when the action does kick in.
But the best scenes are comedic. Couples therapy between two spies is especially hilarious (the therapist thinks they're computer software engineers).
The pairing of Erskine and Glover has got critics frothing at the mouth.
"Of course things soon turn messy, as you would expect from two attractive people," declares Rolling Stone.
"These are two very attractive people, my friends," writes The Guardian.
But Erskine herself has previously told The Guardian that trying to push herself to match Jolie's "sexy" wasn't a healthy way to approach the role.
"You look at Angelina Jolie in the film and she's a total goddess, and I was thinking: 'Well, I can't be her… I decided it would still be sexy, but in a different way.'"
And the intent – to portray a charmingly adorable but dorky couple – was realised.
The original Mr & Mrs Smith marked the beginning of Brangelina
Thinking about these characters as ordinary is a major departure given the legendary off-screen antics of the original couple.
Pitt and Jolie had undeniable chemistry and emerged from the film a real-life couple in a union that wouldn't last.
But their relationship is seared into the annals of popular culture.
When they became Brangelina, as they would come to be known, the reaction was feverish.
This had a lot to do with the fact that when Pitt and Jolie started working together, Pitt was married to Friends star Jennifer Aniston – with fans, and tabloid publications, taking sides.
Pitt and Aniston ended their marriage in 2005.
Fast forward a decade and Jolie and Pitt acrimoniously divorced in 2016, amidst a messy custody battle and allegations by Jolie that Pitt was violent towards some of their children.
But their celluloid paring as Mr & Mrs Smith remains available to stream on Disney+.
There was some offset drama with the series too
Backstage drama, while far less explosive, played out with the TV series as well.
Fleabag star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge was cast as Jane but six months in, abandoned the project due to "creative differences".
And people questioned – in a world full of Hollywood remakes – why Mr & Mrs Smith needed to join that list.
"Once we were announced, we saw the comment, 'Who needs this show?'", Sloane said of the online commentary that followed the announcement.
"We didn't blame them. In a culture heavily inundated with remakes, this was a reasonable reaction.
"No one would need a show that retold the same blockbuster movie.
"But what we set out to do was to make something wholly original."
And original it is.
All eight episodes of Mr & Mrs Smith are available to stream on Prime Video