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Hello, I'm Sam Adams, and this is the Slate Spoiler Special for Glass.

Glass is the third film in a trilogy that began with M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable in 2000 and picked up again in 2016's

split. The premise of all three movies is that comic book-like superheroes live among us and have

for centuries, but they keep a low profile and sometimes don't even know that they have powers

themselves. In Glass, Samuel L. Jackson's evil mastermind resumes his quest to make their existence public by engineering a battle between Bruce Willis and James McAvoy, which leads to a climactic showdown that, well, we'll get to that.

Joining me to talk about Glass is Jeffrey Blumer, who is the senior editor at Slate.

Hi, Sam.

And Matt Singer, who is the editor-in-chief of Screencrush.

Hi. Hi. So let's sort who is the editor-in-chief of Screen Crush. Hi.

Hi.

So let's sort of set the groundwork here because I think we all have some sort of history with

Emmett Shyamalan.

He's been around a long time.

And the way this movie kind of came to be part of a trilogy is quite unusual.

Both Unbreakable and Split kind of saved

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