Eastrail 177 — M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable Trilogy, Part 2

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Breaking Through the Eastrail 177 Trilogy

Welcome to part two of our mega look into M. Night Shyamalan’s twenty-year-in-the-making Unbreakable Trilogy, or as it has been marketed, the Eastrail 177 Trilogy. We pick up in media res, picking up with our Expanding the Syllabus segment. We’re recommending books, movies and various other medias to help flesh out some of the themes and ideas of Shyamalan’s works. But this episode is really about diving deep into Unbreakable, Split and Glass. We talk Shyamalan’s auteur tendencies, and explore his attempts to translate comic book style and tropes. Relating to Split, we look at sexual trauma and mental illness as presented in the film—primarily focusing on the misrepresentation of dis-associative disorder. Finally, we look at Glass. The big topic here is how it comments on the modern comic book cycle and style.

After all of this, we finally render a verdict on the Eastrail 177 Trilogy as a whole, does it go on the shelf or in the trash? Tune in to find out.

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