The Take

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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, Ch... more

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November 18, 2025 Why We Can’t Have A Modern Carrie Bradshaw...
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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 most relatable to so many of us who feel like we don’t quite have everything figured out yet. It’s interesting to imagine how things might be different for Carrie if she was on the struggle bus with us, now. So, let’s take a look at four major areas of Carrie’s life to see how things have changed (and how we might still be able to learn something from Ms. Bradshaw!)

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November 14, 2025 Bugonia: Symbolism, Ending & Deeper Meaning Explained
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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 if we can really save each other or even ourselves. So what is Bugonia (and that wild ending) really trying to tell us?

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November 07, 2025 Are Parasocial Relationships Making Us Miserable, On Screen & In Real Life?
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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 parasocial relationships really is? Let’s take a look at how this behavior plays out on screen and in real life to get a deeper understanding of the real issue…

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October 31, 2025 Wednesday Addams: The Perfect Modern Weird Girl Icon Becomes The Main Character
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Wednesday Addams has always been subversively cynical and wickedly powerful, but it’s only recently that she’s been allowed to step into the spotlight on her own. Netflix’s Wednesday has given us the opportunity to get to know this long-time icon in a new, deeper way – and it’s also given her the freedom to grow as a person in ways she never has before. So how has Wednesday evolved? And what can we learn from her? Let’s dig in…

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October 29, 2025 The Danger of Making Oversharing Your Whole Career | from SATC to Girls to TikTok & Beyond
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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 understanding of this phenomenon, let’s use some of our favorite oversharing writers from movies and TV like (Carrie Bradshaw, Lena Dunham/Hannah Horvath, and even Gossip Girl himself Dan Humphrey & more) to unpack: the reasons why people tend to overshare, how some turned it into an entire career (from books to blogs to TikTok and other social media), and all of those downsides that people often don’t think about until it’s too late…

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October 23, 2025 What Really Went Wrong With TRON: Ares, Explained
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 Aura Farming: The Truth About Cultivating Cool, Explained
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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 degree. This choice to deliberately work to build up a specific idea of yourself as interesting has gone by plenty of different names, from creating a persona, to curating a vibe, and now to ‘aura farming.’ But what is aura farming, really? It’s actually more interesting than you might expect, and can be relatable to our own everyday lives in surprising ways. So let’s take a deeper look to unpack what’s really going on…

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October 12, 2025 The Summer I Turned Pretty: Belly's Real Problem, Explained
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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 see her as the villain of the show.) Belly’s story digs into the true messiness of growing up and trying to figure out who you are in a world that doesn’t always seem to make sense. She’s cringe, messy, indecisive, a little (okay, maybe a lot…) selfish – but not necessarily unrealistic. So let’s take a closer look at Belly and her story to uncover why her flaws are integral to her growth journey (even if they make us want to yell at the TV sometimes…)

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October 07, 2025 How K-Dramas Used Classic Movie Magic To Create A Modern Media Empire
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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 is it about K-Dramas that make them so beloved, and so addicting? The world of K-Dramas is vast and constantly expanding and evolving, so there’s no way we could cover everything in one video – but we want to begin with this quick dive into K-Dramas and what we love about them! So whether you’ve been hearing about them for a while but still haven’t taken the leap to begin watching or have been loving them for years, let’s dive in!

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October 01, 2025 Parks & Recreation: April Ludgate, The Secretly Optimistic Cynic
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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 and build your own life without giving up all of the things that make you you. So, how did she do it? Let’s take a closer look…

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