Chance and Noah try to make sense of M. Night Shyamalan’s Eastrail 177 trilogy beginning with 2000’s Unbreakable, picking up steam with 2017’s Split, and culminating in the new ostensibly thoughtful comic-book riff Glass. 

Zach Vasquez joins the show (at the 50-minute mark) to talk about his new Guardian essay on deconstructionism ruling the super-hero film boom and why Glass, therefore, may not be as cutting-edge as it seems to think. Read Zach’s piece here.

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