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To start things off tonight, we heard there were some award nomination thingies recently. The...Lloyds? The Jeffs? No; it has something to do with a..dumpster? Trash? A trash can! That\\u2019s right; the Oscar nominations were announced. Surely the Screeners have something to say about those, right? Well, at least Daniel must.

Award shows always make a great first round, but the episode\\u2019s main event is M. Night Shyamalan\\u2019s latest movie, Split. As you may have heard, M. Night Shyamalan films tend to have something in common. No, it\\u2019s not being hated by Josh (that category\\u2019s far bigger than just Shyamalan\\u2019s movies), but good guess. The thing they have in common is that they\\u2019re impossible to summarize in show notes for...reasons. Any attempt to do so reads like a lazy BuzzFeed headline: \\u201cAn almost-bald guy locks some girls in a cellar. You won\\u2019t believe what happens next!\\u201d And so on.

Anyway, pretend our summary was slightly less lazy. Shyamalan\\u2019s last two movies have been a great one-two punch at people suffering from mental illness, so pretend you just listened to Josh bore you to death about that or something. We\\u2019re sure the Screeners will do a better job of talking about the movie without talking about it...or maybe they\\u2019ll just skip straight to the spoilers section. Guess you\\u2019ll just have to listen to find out.

To round out the episode, the Screeners have opted for a return of one of Chris\\u2019s favorite segments\\u2014Top Three. The topic for this time: movies with twist endings. OK, so that topic might have ruined the whole coy fa\\xe7ade we put up in the last couple paragraphs. We blame Chad, because...well, because it just feels right to blame Chad even if it was really Chris\\u2019s fault.

OK, that about does it for what may be the most poorly summarized episode in Screeners history. Head on over to Facebook to give us your best Shyamarry (that\\u2019s \\u201cShyamalan summary\\u201d, for those not au courant about terminology invented during the course of writing these notes).