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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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
2
The Rich Girl Plot Armor Problem , Explained | ...
14 min
3
Wicked For Good, Explained: Why Its So Polarizi...
11 min
4
Stranger Things Season Five, Volume One, Explained
11 min
5
One Battle After Another: Ending Explained, Sym...
13 min
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Why We Can’t Have A Modern Carrie Bradshaw...
11 min
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Bugonia: Symbolism, Ending & Deeper Meaning Exp...
12 min
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Are Parasocial Relationships Making Us Miserabl...
14 min
9
Wednesday Addams: The Perfect Modern Weird Girl...
12 min
10
The Danger of Making Oversharing Your Whole Car...
15 min
11
What Really Went Wrong With TRON: Ares, Explained
10 min
12
Aura Farming: The Truth About Cultivating Cool,...
11 min
13
The Summer I Turned Pretty: Belly's Real Proble...
11 min
14
How K-Dramas Used Classic Movie Magic To Create...
11 min
15
Parks & Recreation: April Ludgate, The Secretly...
11 min
16
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
18
The KPop Demon Hunters Phenomenon, Explained | ...
16 min
19
Samantha Would Have Saved Sex and the City Rebo...
12 min
20
"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Real...
14 min
21
The Truth About Being "Too Much" | Trope, Expla...
14 min
22
And Just Like That... A Terrible Ending To Sex ...
35 min
23
The True Terror of Weapons | Movie Review, Symb...
11 min
24
The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To...
12 min
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Rachel, Penny & The "Sitcom Hot Blonde Trap", E...
13 min