Double race swap, put a diverse character in it, and make it lame!

Did you get this angry when they brought Knight Rider back and the model of car had changed?

They aren't the same characters from the movie, so calling it a race swap isn't accurate.

Nice bait thread. It would have to be a REALLY slow year in the land of petty, white supremacist grievances to sound the "woke"/"race swap" alarm over this. It would still be a dumb & petty thing to cry on the internet about, even if it was a direct adaptation but just a cursory glance at this series makes it pretty obvious that it's a very different thing than the movie. It's a television series with its own original story & characters, very loosely based on the premise of a one-off movie that came out 2 decades ago. Honestly, judging from the first episode alone, I'm certain most people never would have even made the connection to the film if it wasn't called Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Note: The silliness of this topic aside, the first episode was pretty average. A series usually tries to really grab your attention with its first episode but in this case, it was a bit too much a slow burn for me. Awkward, getting to know you chit chat is not entertaining in real life, nor is it in a tv series & there was one too many drawn out scenes like that. It has potential but it really needs to pick things up.