The Take
This is the Take. It's where you come to understand more about your favorite movies, shows and culture. Our video essays make the story worlds you enter richer and deeper. Think: Endings Explained, Character Studies, Hidden Messages and Symbols Revealed, Actor and Director Profiles, and more.
We want to share our love of visual culture with the world. So here's our Take.
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After The Hunt: Provocative or Pointless?
10 min
2
The Heated Rivalry Phenomenon Explained in Unde...
13 min
3
Friends: The Truth About Rachel's Life, Money &...
11 min
4
The *Real* Reasons AI Slop & The Blandness Epid...
A deep dive into how the blandness epidemic lead to the AI slop takeover. From the Disney & OpenAI agreement, to AI "actors" & beyond...
12 min
5
The Rich Girl Plot Armor Problem , Explained | ...
14 min
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Wicked For Good, Explained: Why Its So Polarizi...
11 min
7
Stranger Things Season Five, Volume One, Explained
11 min
8
One Battle After Another: Ending Explained, Sym...
13 min
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Why We Can’t Have A Modern Carrie Bradshaw...
11 min
10
Bugonia: Symbolism, Ending & Deeper Meaning Exp...
12 min
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Are Parasocial Relationships Making Us Miserabl...
14 min
12
Wednesday Addams: The Perfect Modern Weird Girl...
12 min
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The Danger of Making Oversharing Your Whole Car...
15 min
14
What Really Went Wrong With TRON: Ares, Explained
10 min
15
Aura Farming: The Truth About Cultivating Cool,...
11 min
16
The Summer I Turned Pretty: Belly's Real Proble...
11 min
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How K-Dramas Used Classic Movie Magic To Create...
11 min
18
Parks & Recreation: April Ludgate, The Secretly...
11 min
19
Can We Trust *Anyone* We Meet Online Anymore? F...
16 min
20
Abbott Elementary's Principal Ava: The Good Sid...
14 min
21
The KPop Demon Hunters Phenomenon, Explained | ...
16 min
22
Samantha Would Have Saved Sex and the City Rebo...
12 min
23
"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Real...
14 min
24
The Truth About Being "Too Much" | Trope, Expla...
14 min
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And Just Like That... A Terrible Ending To Sex ...
35 min