So often stories resort to lazy, easy shortcuts we’ve seen a million times before. When are they effective or timeless, and when is this just a boring lack of imagination? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

So often stories resort to lazy, easy shortcuts we’ve seen a million times before. When are they effective or timeless, and when is this just a boring lack of imagination? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So often stories resort to lazy, easy shortcuts we’ve seen a million times before. When are they effective or timeless, and when is this just a boring lack of imagination? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Biggest Hollywood Clichés - What’s Really Behind Them

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.

TV & Film

TV Reviews

Film Reviews

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.

Share The Biggest Hollywood Clichés - What’s Really Behind Them

Sign up to save your podcasts

The Biggest Hollywood Clichés - What’s Really Behind Them

The Biggest Hollywood Clichés - What’s Really Behind Them

More shows like The Take

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Pop Culture Happy Hour

Death, Sex & Money

The Spill

Radio Rental

The Rest Is History

Every Outfit