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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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11:35

Why The TikTok Ban Does Actually Matter (Even If You...

The Take ·

2025/01/18

Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/thetake to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposedMy partner Aura just launched their new "Are you smarter than a scammer?" quiz. Take the quiz and see if you’re as savvy as you think: https://bit.ly/aurasts The looming possibility of a TikTok Ban in the US has been causing chaos online – but the problem is actually a lot deeper than just the loss of a random social media app. It’s

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12:05

The Real Tragedy of First Wife Syndrome (& The...

The Take ·

2025/01/15

Go to http://zocdoc.com/thetake to find and book a top-rated doctor today.💍 Unpacking First Wife Tropes, First Wife Syndrome, and the First Wives who are taking back their power The first wife trope on screen often sees married woman learning that her marriage was just her husband’s trial run, and now he’s moving on to someone else (who he often plans to treat a lot better.) Being the “first wife” was long seen as a major loss – but in recent decades many have started turning it into a win. Let’s

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13:11

Youngest Child Syndrome, Explained: The Hidden...

The Take ·

2025/01/07

Being the ‘baby’ of the family is usually seen as a major win, scoring you all of the attention and none of the consequences. But it turns out that being the youngest sibling isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. For all of the many positives that can come with being the youngest, there are also some surprising downsides that don’t get talked about nearly as often. So let’s take a deeper look at Youngest Child Syndrome in movies and tv versus real life to get a better understanding of the full reality

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11:16

New Girl - Jess Day & Finding Confidence *Without*...

The Take ·

2024/12/31

New Girl’s Jessica Day always quietly believed in herself, but over the course of the show we got to watch her find her own kind of strong, quirky confidence. It wasn’t always an easy road – while she never lost her positive demeanor for long, she definitely had to deal with her own fair share of ups and downs. But no matter how much the world tried to drag her down, she always found a way to come out on top and turn it into a great lesson for herself and her friends. So let’s take a look at Jess’s

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11:04

The New Year's Eve Kiss Obsession, Explained

The Take ·

2024/12/29

Make sure to check out cyclingfrog.com and use our code THETAKEHOLIDAYS to get 20% off of your order!The leadup to the new year is often filled with a range of emotions, from joy to dread, anticipation to full on anxiety. And there’s one New Year’s Eve tradition that can pull all of these emotions together at once – getting a kiss as the clock hits midnight. A superstition with a surprisingly long history, it’s become the way to greet each new year for many, but that doesn’t mean that things always

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10:54

The Cheating Creative Trope - When Art Imitates...

The Take ·

2024/12/20

Go to http://factormeals.com/50thetake and use code 50thetake to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping!From writers to singers to actors and beyond, there’s long been a trope that creatives are so filled with passion and emotion that they just can’t help but spread their love around... Sometimes this takes place in acknowledged, consensually open relationships, but often it seems to come through cheating – cheating that they then often find ways to put into their art for all to see. Of

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14:24

Holiday Rom-Coms' Problem Isn't Being Formulaic, It's...

The Take ·

2024/12/17

Go to http://zocdoc.com/thetake to find and book a top-rated doctor today! ❄️Romantic comedies set around the holidays have been criticized for being formulaic, but their big problem isn't that they replay beloved tropes, it's something deeper (that they have been actually working to fix! Kind of...) Romantic comedies are a beloved genre any time of year, but they’ve got a particularly strong hold on the holidays. From classics like Love, Actually and The Holiday, to modern hits like The Merry

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11:56

Nightbitch, Explained: Motherhood is Wild

The Take ·

2024/12/10

Go to http://ro.co/take to find out if you’re covered for free. || Nightbitch is a searing, painful portrait of motherhood – where the titular character just happens to lose herself so dramatically in parenthood that she winds up turning into a dog. It was a hit book in 2021 and has been adapted for the screen by Marielle Heller, with Amy Adams in the lead role. So, does the film live up to the gritty, surrealness of the book? And what does it really have to say about the experience of trying to

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13:11

Eye Color Symbolism in Movies & TV - What Each Color...

The Take ·

2024/12/07

The eyes are the windows to the soul, and on screen, from blue eyes to brown eyes to green eyes and beyond, the color that adorns those eyes can tell you a lot about the soul within. So, let’s take a deeper look at what each eye color has come to represent on screen, and how that’s changing!Watch the visual episode here: https://youtu.be/6f9wpdNcoFY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:05

The Godfather & Succession: Times Change, Power Lust...

The Take ·

2024/12/04

Go to http://factormeals.com/50thetake and use code 50thetake to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping! The Godfather Part II was released fifty years ago – and in the half century since it and the first film debuted, they’ve influenced film and television in innumerable ways. This story of a mafia family, and one initially reluctant member’s blood-soaked ascendancy to the top of the empire has continued to draw in audiences with its sprawling, epic nature and deep intimacy and drama

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13:36

Why Family Holidays Are *So Chaotic* (& The Secret To...

The Take ·

2024/11/26

Make sure to check out cyclingfrog.com and use our code THETAKEHOLIDAYS to get 20% off of your order!Being around family can be a lot of fun, but… it can also be very chaotic. And what time of year does that chaos really start to heat up? The holiday season, of course! It's a feature of so many hilarious episodes of our favorite shows, from Friends to Modern Family to Blackish to Brooklyn Nine-Nine and beyond (and some very *stressful* ones, like The Bear and Heartstopper), to some of the most

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12:41

Middle Child Syndrome: The Problem with Being Suck in...

The Take ·

2024/11/25

Go to http://uncommongoods.com/thetake to get 15% off your next gift! With siblings, there’s usually the responsible older child, the gets-away-with-everything younger child, and then… there’s the middle child. Born too late to be the first born and too early to be the baby of the family, middle children often get stuck in a kind of limbo – loved but… forgotten or ignored, no matter how much they might try to make themselves an equal part of the family. Being the middle child can lead to one

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13:06

Desperate Housewives: How Susan Became The Show's...

The Take ·

2024/11/19

Go to http://zocdoc.com/thetake to find and book a top-rated doctor today!Susan Mayer was Desperate Housewives’ ‘anchor character’ – the everywoman who show creator Marc Cherry designed to be loveable and relatable. But although on paper Susan was inoffensive, there was something about her that audiences loved to hate. Over the course of eight seasons, the Housewives met with murder, fraud, bribery and so much more – so… what exactly was it about Susan, a seemingly innocent girl next door type,

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13:31

Gilmore Girls & The Truth About Emily - Old Money,...

The Take ·

2024/11/15

Go to http://ro.co/take to get a membership starting at just $99 for your first month. Gilmore Girls is of course the story of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore both figuring out how to grow up into the people they want to be – but there’s a third Gilmore woman who provides a very different perspective to the show with her own biting wit: matriarch Emily Gilmore. Emily was constantly at war with daughter Lorelai, over everything from major life decisions to the minutiae of her outfits. She is uptight and

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12:24

The Penguin's Sofia: Saving Gotham or Becoming What...

The Take ·

2024/11/13

Go to http://factormeals.com/thetake50 and use code thetake50 to get 50% off your first box and 20% off your next month! The Penguin’s Sofia Gigante (formerly Falcone) is a departure from her comic book and animated film counterpart. Showrunner Lauren LeFranc gave the character depth and complexity, turning her into a more than worthy adversary for titular Oz Cobb. Both are strategic, observant, and know how to appeal to other peoples’ egos. Sofia sees people for who and what they are, and often

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16:49

Movies Every Teen Girl Should Watch 🍿🤩

The Take ·

2024/11/10

Go to http://uncommongoods.com/thetake to get 15% off your next gift! 🍿When you’re a teenager, every emotion is dialed up to a hundred, but fortunately, the teens aren’t alone! Enter teen movies, especially teen movies geared toward teenage girls – capturing so many of the issues and emotions that teen girls find themselves experiencing, including romance, comedy, angst, friendship, awkwardness, anxiety, and desperately wanting life to be a little less complicated (preferably with a happy

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12:05

Gen Z Are The New Millennials (But That Isn't A Bad...

The Take ·

2024/11/03

There’s so much talk about how different generations are, about how we’re all constantly at war with one another… but, for as much as we may disagree about hair parts and sock heights, Millennials and Gen Z have actually come to have a lot in common. The next, younger generation coming in and taking over is par for the course because… that’s how the forward movement of time works; but, underneath the aesthetic differences between these generations, there are a lot of commonalities both in how they

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14:00

Weeds' Nancy, Explained: What Actually Drove Her To...

The Take ·

2024/10/31

Make sure to check out cyclingfrog.com and use our code THETAKEHOLIDAYS to get 20% off of your order!Weeds’ Nancy Botwin began the show as a very sympathetic figure – newly widowed and left to figure out how to keep her family afloat while struggling with her own grief. But over the course of the show’s 8 seasons, a different, darker side of Nancy made itself more and more apparent. She remained entertaining to watch, but became harder and harder to side with. By leaning into her anti-hero nature,

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26:09

The X Files, Dana Scully & Skeptics Who Secretly Want...

The Take ·

2024/10/30

Go to http://zocdoc.com/thetake to find and book a top-rated doctor today. || Wondering what else is out there is a core part of the human experience – whether it’s taking a peek into a dark forest or looking out into the cosmos, we can’t help but imagine what we might be missing. And in this world of ghosts, cryptids, aliens, and all other sorts of phenomena, there’s a big emphasis on belief. This, of course, has led to a split: the true believers and the skeptics. But while skeptics are often

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12:05

Gone Girl - Why Amy's Fury Still Resonates 10 Years...

The Take ·

2024/10/29

It’s been a decade since David Fincher’s adaptation of Gone Girl hit our screens and sent waves through society. Amy Dunne was villainous, vengeful, and… also kind of relatable. And while the story was grounded in its era, it’s in many ways even more relevant today. So let’s take a look back at the film, how its commentary on splits of the self, existing in the public eye, and the problem with the media all fit into our current world, and why Amy’s wrath still connects with audiences.Learn more

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