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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January 2, 2026 • 10 mins
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After The Hunt was poised to be the provocative drama of this year’s Oscar’s race – but it didn’t get the reception everyone was expecting, and has ended up dividing audiences for very different reasons. This prestige drama from a renowned director starring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars shou...
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January 1, 2026 • 13 mins
How did Heated Rivalry, a hockey romance drama, become such a huge cultural phenomenon?! The unexpectedly mega viral hit combines humor, sports, love and self-discovery in a way that's captured audience's hearts and minds. So, let's take a closer look at Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov's stories, their relationship, the truth about Heated Rivalry's alleged fanfic origins, why the show's ending is so important, and what might be co...
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December 24, 2025 • 11 mins
On Friends, Rachel Green’s life was so aspirational in many ways – but would it be totally impossible to have now? From the giant apartment she splits with Monica, to her rocketing career trajectory, to the fashion and lifestyle she’s able to have in one of the most expensive cities in the country – it’s definitely interesting to imagine how things might be quite different for Rachel today (and how watching her story might have set...
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December 16, 2025 • 12 mins
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Have we passed the point of no return with AI Slop and bland content? We’re going to dive into the four major aspects of this issue: businesses like Disney and Coca-Cola embracing AI (and possibly destroying their own brands), the financial reasons behind the blandness epide...
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December 5, 2025 • 14 mins
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Money can solve a lot of problems, but… what happens when nearly every character seems to be protected by a bubble of invisible wealth (even ones that are meant to be “just like us”?!) While “Rich Girls” have always had a certain amount of plot armor (on screen and in real life,) in movies and TV shows even average, supposedly down-to-earth characters can feel like ...
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December 4, 2025 • 11 mins
Wicked: For Good, the sequel to last year’s hit film starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, has smashed box office records – but even though it’s winning at the box office, for many viewers some of the magic seems to be missing in this installment. Bringing the stage musical’s second act to the screen was always going to be an uphill battle. The question now is: is the film really a miss, or is it just not what some people were ...
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December 2, 2025 • 11 mins
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Stranger Things is finally back, so what have we learned from these first episodes of season five? We're taking a look at the story so far, the symbolism, and deeper meanings to begin to get an idea of what it all means and where things might be headed in the finale!
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November 25, 2025 • 13 mins
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s new action thriller One Battle After Another has already become one of the most talked-about films of ...
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November 18, 2025 • 11 mins
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Rewatching Sex and the City, we can’t help but wonder… is it even possible to live like Carrie Bradshaw nowadays? Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda’s stories were all aspirational (to varying degrees…) but of the core four, Carrie’s life (especially in the beginning) seems to be the mo...
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November 14, 2025 • 12 mins
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Bugonia, the new Oscar-contender from director Yorgos Lanthimos starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, is simultaneously out of this world and very of our world. Effortlessly shifting between hilarious and horrifying, the film constantly keeps you guessing, and uses its zany story to raise some complex questions around our place in the world (and the cosmos) and i...
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November 7, 2025 • 14 mins
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When does being a fan go too far? And could these intense attachments actually secretly be making us miserable? It’s actually a surprisingly complex problem, because while being a fan can undoubtedly bring joy into our lives, there’s also a dark side that’s been growing more and more intense in recent years. How do we know where the line with paraso...
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October 31, 2025 • 12 mins
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October 29, 2025 • 15 mins
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Everyone likes to talk about themselves every once in a while, but what is it that compels some people to make it their entire career? To get a better ...
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October 23, 2025 • 10 mins
TRON: Ares, the newest entry into the Tron franchise starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Evan Peters, has flopped in a big way and looks like it’s going to be an over $100 million loss for Disney. So, what actually went wrong here? Let’s break down the real reasons why TRON: Ares just didn’t quite work (and why that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a total failure forever.)
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October 15, 2025 • 11 mins
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Some say that the ‘it factor’ is something that you either have or you don’t, that ‘coolness’ is something that’s just innate within some people, and something the rest of us can never truly hope to capture. But the truth is quite different: coolness is pretty much always cultivated to some ...
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October 12, 2025 • 11 mins
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The Summer I Turned Pretty has become one of the biggest teen dramas of our current era, and one of the most contentious aspects of the show has actually ended up being the girl at the center of it all: Belly Conklin. She is quite the polarizing figure; while many find her to be relatable, others have had a very hard time connecting with her at all (and some have even come to se...
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October 7, 2025 • 11 mins
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K-Dramas have been growing in popularity across the world for decades now, but they’ve seen a particularly huge growth in interest in the 2020s. While some might just chalk this up to the success of Netflix’s Squid Game, it’s actually a lot deeper and wider ranging than that. So what i...
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September 30, 2025 • 11 mins
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Parks and Recreation’s April Ludgate is known for her cynical, sarcastic demeanor. But, underneath that moody exterior, she was actually a surprisingly positive thinker – it’s just that optimism looks a little different on April. Though it might not seem like it at first, April provides a really relatable example of how to figure out your sense of self an...
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Everything from faking dating profiles to Netflix's Unknown Number: The High School Catfish and beyond has us questioning how we can *ever* really be sure who to trust online at this point... So let’s take...
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September 21, 2025 • 14 mins
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Abbott Elementary’s Principal Ava Coleman is many things: outlandish, vain, selfish, hilarious. Ava’s narcissistic nature has caused many problems over the course of the show, for herself and others (mostly others…) But as time has gone on, we’ve also gotten to see how,...
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