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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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13:39

Commitment Phobia, Explained: Why So Many Movie & TV...

The Take ·

2024/07/23

Scan the QR code or use THETAKE55 to get 55% off your first month at Scentbird https://sbird.co/3zrNbsRThis month I received... Not a Perfume by Juliette Has A Gun https://sbird.co/3zpDPxP Roses Vanille by Mancera Paris https://sbird.co/3XNjL2n Moonlit Nights by Judith Ripka https://sbird.co/3ztzr0D THIS IS NOT A BLUE BOTTLE 1/.7 by Histoires de Parfums https://sbird.co/3zz23W8 Some characters are obsessed with the idea of being in love, but then when they actually get it… they can’t seem to

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13:30

Annoying Main Characters: Loveable, Relatable &... A...

The Take ·

2024/07/22

Download the DraftKings app and sign up with code THETAKE. New players can get $100 instantly in casino credits with just a $1 wager. From The Bold Type's Jane to SATC's Carrie to Desperate Housewives' Susan to OITNB's Piper to HIMYM's Ted to... *so many* others, main characters are the ones that pull us into a show or movie, the eyes through which we experience the story, and sometimes, and much as we may love them… they’re really annoying. We’re not talking about real baddies here – but instead

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10:31

The Struggle of Being the New Friend, Explained |...

The Take ·

2024/07/19

Friends' Phoebe Buffay and How I Met Your Mother's Robin Scherbatsky both encounter a particularly difficult quirk of friendship dynamics: being the New Friend in the group. Being the newest friend working your way into an already existing friend group can be difficult, and leave you feeling like no matter how well you’ve integrated into the group, they’ll always choose each other over you. Sometimes the New Friend is able to overcome this hurdle and truly become an equal friend with everyone else

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10:12

What Curly Hair Represents In Movies & TV (& How It's...

The Take ·

2024/07/17

Curly hair, like hair colors, is often used to represent something specific about a character on screen. Sometimes curly hair is a positive signifier – like of an untamable strength within a character – but for a long time curly hair was used as an indication that something about a character needed to be changed and, well, straightened out. In recent years, things have begun evolving as we’ve seen more and more characters come to love their hair (and themselves) as is, following on the back of real

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10:52

Clueless: How Cher Was Totally Right About (Almost)...

The Take ·

2024/07/15

Clueless' Cher Horowitz at first might seem like just another character stuck in the 'dumb blonde' trope, but when we look closer, we realize that she was actually right about a lot of things! She definitely doesn't get everything right, but she is quite astute - and, importantly, willing to fight for what she wants (*and* admit when she's wrong.) So let's take a deeper look at the lessons Cher can teach us about life, love, and friendship!

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12:29

Legally Blonde: Elle Woods' Guide to Self Confidence...

The Take ·

2024/07/14

Go to http://rocketmoney.com/thetake to cancel your unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money!Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods is an iconic beacon of optimism and thinking pink, and one of her defining characteristics is her confidence. It can often be hard to find confidence within ourselves when it seems like the whole world is trying to put us down, and Elle certainly has her own moments of wavering belief in herself. But no matter how many times she gets knocked down, she always figures out a way to

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13:24

Euphoria: What's Really Wrong With Nate Jacobs |...

The Take ·

2024/07/13

Euphoria’s Nate Jacobs at first seems like he has it all, so you’d think he’d be a pretty happy guy. But a happy guy Nate Jacobs most certainly is not. He’s a dangerous and spiteful presence, his anger and intensity fusing to form something much darker than your run of the mill teen meanness. So why is Nate so miserable – and so prone to taking his misery out on everyone else? Let’s take a deeper look at Nate’s story to analyze what’s really going on behind all of that anger – and what the true

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11:24

A Quiet Place Day One Explained & Review: Symbolism,...

The Take ·

2024/07/11

Download Opera for free using https://opr.as/Opera-browser-thetake Thanks Opera for sponsoring this video! A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to the original films, takes the quiet action out of the small town of the first two films and into one of the noisiest cities in the country. While Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn have been universally praised for their takes on their characters, audiences’ responses to the film as a whole have been quite a bit more split. So what works, and what doesn’t

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11:52

The Bikeriders Explained & Review: the Real Story,...

The Take ·

2024/07/10

Go to http://zocdoc.com/THETAKE to download the Zocdoc app for free and book a top-rated doctor today! The Bikeriders, the new film starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy as members of a growing and splintering motorcycle club initially had a lot of buzz, but since its release, it's been getting some pretty mixed reviews because to some viewers, it feels like… nothing much really happens. The film is (very loosely) based on the real life story of a Chicago motorcycle club, and so many

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12:43

Gilmore Girls Lane Kim: The Rebel That Was Forced To...

The Take ·

2024/07/09

Go to http://factormeals.com/thetake50 and use code thetake50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month. Gilmore Girls' resident rocker rebel Lane Kim ended up with one of the most disappointing outcomes in the series. While she began the show with a buzzing love for music and lust for personal freedom, as the show went on and her character was pushed further to the side, so much of what made her Lane was sanded away. In recent years, as more people have begun re-watching show on

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12:08

How I Met Your Mother: Everything Ted Got Wrong About...

The Take ·

2024/07/01

At this point, it’s no secret that How I Met Your Mother’s Ted Mosby has a pretty delusional outlook on life – he’s the definition of a toxic Nice Guy and also not a great friend. But what is it, specifically, about his way of looking at the world (and the people in it) that was so wrong? And what can we learn from it, even if he didn’t? Let’s take a closer look at what Ted got wrong about life, love, and finding happiness.

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14:05

Movie & TV Vacations, Explained: 1% Luxury to...

The Take ·

2024/06/29

Vacations, from the super expensive & extravagant to totally relatable, feature in so many of our favorite movies & shows. Sometimes it’s a lot of fun just to watch some of our favorite, everyday characters go on some amazing – or hilariously not so amazing – vacations around the world. Just like our TikTok and Instagram feeds getting flooded with images and videos of influencers flitting around the globe, sometimes these onscreen vacations can give us a pretty unrealistic expectation of what an

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12:41

Sex and the City: Samantha & Charlotte's Surprising...

The Take ·

2024/06/27

Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones and Charlotte York were set up to be complete opposites: Samantha the free-loving, up for anything hottie and Charlotte the romantic, repressed Park Ave princess. But when we take a deeper look at their stories, we actually start to see that surprisingly… they’re a lot alike. While they don’t always see eye to eye on the ‘right’ way to live one’s life, they do share some important similarities in the ways they go about getting what they want (and in how they grow

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11:52

The Bikeriders, Explained: the Real Life Story, the...

The Take ·

2024/06/25

Go to http://zocdoc.com/THETAKE to download the Zocdoc app for free and book a top-rated doctor today!The Bikeriders, the new film starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy as members of a growing and splintering motorcycle club initially had a lot of buzz, but since it’s release has been getting some pretty mixed reviews because to some viewers, it feels like… nothing much really happens. The film is (very loosely) based on the real life story of a Chicago motorcycle club, and so many

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11:17

Modern Family: How Gloria Was Right About Everything

The Take ·

2024/06/16

Modern Family’s Gloria Pritchett was initially discounted by pretty much everyone else on the show. They were so blinded by her more obvious qualities and the fact that they assumed she was a gold digger, that they couldn’t even see the amazing person inside that beautiful package. But it quickly became clear that she was the one with the best outlook on life. And not only did she use her smarts to create a good life for herself and her son, she also helped the others on the show grow and become

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20:35

House of the Dragon, Rhaenyra vs Alicent: Their...

The Take ·

2024/06/14

House of the Dragon's Rhaenyra and Alicent’s opposite personalities are the sun-and-moon gravitational pull that makes their relationship the heart of the show’s central conflict. Starting as each other’s closest companions, Rhaenyra and Alicent must contend with their own position in a patriarchal society that view women as merely vessels for male dominion. Let’s take a look at how each woman is shaped by their experiences with abusive men, desire, duty, and motherhood, which ultimately pits them

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11:05

Mean Girls: How Regina Was Right About Everything...

The Take ·

2024/06/12

Mean Girls’ Regina George is one of pop culture’s most iconic high school villains. Perhaps the worst thing about Regina is that what’s horrible about her is actually what’s… true. Regina was a menace because she understood some pretty dark fundamental truths about the world, and the fact that she was right about them underlines some major problems in society. So let’s take a deeper look at what Regina, unfortunately, got right in her outlook on life (and why it’s so important that society, like

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11:12

Why Millennials Seem To Be Aging So Slowly | Explained

The Take ·

2024/06/10

Millennials (aka people born between 1981 and 1996) seem to be aging at a slower rate than previous generations… but no one agrees on why. Some say it’s because they’re just immature, dodging responsibilities and spending too much time on nostalgia. Others blame the rise of cosmetic procedures and the increased focus on looks in our social media focused world combined with the lack of access to the old school markers of “adulthood.” So let’s take a deeper look at this perceived collective

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11:29

The Yoko Ono Trope, Explained: Why She's Hated | From...

The Take ·

2024/06/08

The myth of Yoko Ono destroying The Beatles has persisted for decades. Anytime something goes wrong with a group of male musicians, there always seems to be a woman that catches the blame. In the years since Yoko was accused of ruining the biggest band of all time, many other women – in real life and on screen – have gotten caught up in the same trope of the evil woman who slides in and breaks up the otherwise happy group. But, of course, there’s always more to the story. So let’s take a deeper look

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13:15

Euphoria: How Maddy Was Right About Everything

The Take ·

2024/06/06

Euphoria’s Maddy Perez is the ultra confident queen bee of Euphoria High, and for two seasons the universe seemingly continually tries to destroy her sense of self. But Maddy has no problem fighting back against anyone or anything that tries to shake her confidence. Her story is a rollercoaster of ups and downs, and we can learn a surprising amount about staying true to yourself and not letting the hard times derail you from her refusal to give up. So let’s take a look back at Maddy’s outlook on

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