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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Wednesday Addams: The Perfect Modern Weird Girl...
12 min
2
The Danger of Making Oversharing Your Whole Car...
15 min
3
What Really Went Wrong With TRON: Ares, Explained
10 min
4
Aura Farming: The Truth About Cultivating Cool,...
11 min
5
The Summer I Turned Pretty: Belly's Real Proble...
11 min
6
How K-Dramas Used Classic Movie Magic To Create...
11 min
7
Parks & Recreation: April Ludgate, The Secretly...
11 min
8
Can We Trust *Anyone* We Meet Online Anymore? F...
16 min
9
Abbott Elementary's Principal Ava: The Good Sid...
14 min
10
The KPop Demon Hunters Phenomenon, Explained | ...
16 min
11
Samantha Would Have Saved Sex and the City Rebo...
12 min
12
"Immortality Tech" Is Coming, But... Do We Real...
14 min
13
The Truth About Being "Too Much" | Trope, Expla...
14 min
14
And Just Like That... A Terrible Ending To Sex ...
35 min
15
The True Terror of Weapons | Movie Review, Symb...
11 min
16
The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To...
12 min
17
Rachel, Penny & The "Sitcom Hot Blonde Trap", E...
13 min
18
The "Gen Z Stare" Controversy, Explained
10 min
19
The Struggling Artist Trope, Explained: Why Mov...
12 min
20
The Sabrina Carpenter & Sydney Sweeney Controve...
12 min
21
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
22
Our Shifting Perception of Color, Color Blindne...
11 min
23
Why Rich People Are Labeled Geniuses (Even When...
15 min
24
Why Looking for a Job Is Miserable Now (But So ...
11 min
25
How A Character That Wasn't Supposed To Exist M...
14 min