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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Aura Farming: The Truth About Cultivating Cool,...
11 min
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The Summer I Turned Pretty: Belly's Real Proble...
11 min
3
How K-Dramas Used Classic Movie Magic To Create...
11 min
4
Parks & Recreation: April Ludgate, The Secretly...
11 min
5
Can We Trust *Anyone* We Meet Online Anymore? F...
16 min
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Abbott Elementary's Principal Ava: The Good Sid...
14 min
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The KPop Demon Hunters Phenomenon, Explained | ...
16 min
8
Samantha Would Have Saved Sex and the City Rebo...
12 min
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"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Real...
14 min
10
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
12
The True Terror of Weapons | Movie Review, Symb...
11 min
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The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To...
12 min
14
Rachel, Penny & The "Sitcom Hot Blonde Trap", E...
13 min
15
The "Gen Z Stare" Controversy, Explained
10 min
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The Struggling Artist Trope, Explained: Why Mov...
12 min
17
The Sabrina Carpenter & Sydney Sweeney Controve...
12 min
18
Why Superman 2025 Actually Works
Analyzing why the one thing that's made some people so angry with Superman is actually the reason that the film works...
12 min
19
Our Shifting Perception of Color, Color Blindne...
11 min
20
Why Rich People Are Labeled Geniuses (Even When...
15 min
21
Why Looking for a Job Is Miserable Now (But So ...
11 min
22
How A Character That Wasn't Supposed To Exist M...
14 min
23
Modern Family: Cameron Was Right About Everythi...
11 min
24
Sinners Can Save Hollywood (If They Let It...)
10 min
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The Lilo & Stitch Ending Change Controversy, Ex...
11 min