Hints and tips:
...That audacious McGuffin has been (temporarily?) shunted aside in these 12 new episodes (written and directed by Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten and Tom Tykwer)....
...Who would have wagered that in Mission: Impossible — Fallout Tom Cruise, after hurtling round Paris and London in 100mph BMWs, falling into rivers, jumping off roofs, being shot at, stabbed and multifariously...
...Daniel Ellsberg’s “Pentagon Papers” are the earth-moving McGuffin this time: another scandal-quake emanating from the top....
...Tom Hanks — Hahnks? — is back as our hero, the symbology professor ambushed by apocalypse whenever he steps into Olde Europe....
...Claire Skinner is quietly implacable as Becca, Penny Downie irksomely but disarmingly garrulous as mother Nat, and Tom Goodman-Hill judges his disintegration finely as Howie....
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