Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special podcast.

I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic.

And today we will be spoiling Mission Impossible Fallout, the sixth movie in the very long-running Tom Cruise Adventure series.

Here to talk with me about Mission Impossible Fallout are Slate's browbeat editor, Sam Adams.

Hey, Sam.

Hello.

Who reviewed the movie for Slate?

I did.

And our culture editor, Forrest, Wickman. Hey, Forrest.

Hey, Dana. So, all right. So one of the questions, well, I guess we'll do our traditional

go around the table and tell me whether you're up or down on the movie. And then I want to do a

brief revisiting of the whole Mission Impossible series, you know, nothing in detail, but just enough

to sort of get us to where we are here in episode six So, Sam, yes or no on this movie?

Yes.

I mean, I think people basically know what they're getting from these movies at this point, and you get it.

And what is it?

What is that?

What do you, if you had to summarize in one sentence, what is that one thing you go to an

MI movie for?

It is, you know, basically just a bunch of, you know, very cool, sort of real-looking action set pieces,

thinly threaded together with kind of spy movie gobbledy gook that you can feel free to ignore.

And performed with practical stunts for the most part.

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