The key is in the BRIEF part of briefing! Otherwise it would be called a longing...
Here at EK we have supposedly moved to a more interactive style whereby the PF asks questions of the PM - as Eckhard alludes to in post 7. And even with that style you only need to touch on the expected differences, if any, from the SOPs.
A vital, to my mind anyway, item to brief though even if we are happy with 'standard XXX' for the arrival is to brief the GA procedure; this is what gets screwed up the most!