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.

Film Reviews
TV Reviews
TV & Film
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Scary Teen Girls: Harnessing Her Rage to Reclai...
13 min
77
Good for Her Horror: The Power of & Problem wit...
11 min
78
Fight Club Explained - Surprising Things It Sti...
13 min
79
Modern Family: Haley Was Secretly Way Smarter T...
10 min
80
Joker Folie a Deux’s Biggest Problem (*Isn’t* T...
10 min
81
Why Everyone Is So Afraid Of Teen Girls, Explai...
12 min
82
Agatha All Along Explained: Analyzing Every Maj...
11 min
83
Gossip Girl: How Dan Was Right About Everything...
13 min
84
KAOS: How It Updated Ancient Myths for Our Mode...
15 min
85
The Perfect Couple Isn't What Anyone Expected (...
9 min
86
How Dramedies Broke The Emmy Awards, Explained
10 min
87
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Review: The Deepest Wei...
10 min
88
What Movies, TV & Society Get Wrong About Intro...
14 min
89
Underconsumption Core: Sustainable Solution, Co...
10 min
90
The One Thing That Could Fix Emily In Paris | S...
12 min
91
Industry - Harper, Explained: Selling Your Soul...
14 min
92
Second Chance at Stardom: Actors' Biggest Comeb...
11 min
93
Why Millennial Middle Age Already Feels More Yo...
11 min
94
Gossip Girl: Blair Waldorf Was Right (More Than...
14 min
95
Commitment Phobia, Explained: Why So Many Movie...
13 min
96
Annoying Main Characters: Loveable, Relatable &...
13 min
97
The Struggle of Being the New Friend, Explained...
10 min
98
What Curly Hair Represents In Movies & TV (& Ho...
10 min
99
Clueless: How Cher Was Totally Right About (Alm...
10 min
100
Legally Blonde: Elle Woods' Guide to Self Confi...
12 min