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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
FAQs about The Take:How many episodes does The Take have?The podcast currently has 514 episodes available.
July 30, 2022How Fight Club Predicted TodayFight Club has long been a cult classic, and today Tyler’s complaints about the spiritual costs of turning ourselves into consumers instead of people feel more prophetic than ever – so do any of his solutions make any sense, too? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more14minPlay
July 28, 2022How the Manipulative Victim Trope Shaped the Depp-Heard TrialStories about women being deceptive or manipulative have been embedded in our culture for millennia, dating all the way back to Adam and Eve. Here’s our take on how narratives around the Depp-Heard trial draw on the tropes of the perfect victim and the devious manipulative woman, and how both of these fictional ideas fuel dangerous societal misogyny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more13minPlay
July 26, 2022The It Girl - What Makes Her "It" In Every EraThe “It” girl represents something indefinable — a quality, charisma, or spark that makes her stand out and captures something of her time. So what truly makes a generation’s It Girl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more12minPlay
July 26, 2022House of The Dragon - A Targaryen Deep Dive and What We Know So FarThree years after the end of Game of Thrones, we’re heading back to Westeros. But what can we expect from HBO’s upcoming House of the Dragon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more13minPlay
July 21, 2022The Cougar Trope - Why this joke is outdatedThe Cougar used to be a punchline, but has the joke of an older woman preying on younger men stopped being funny? And was it ever? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more17minPlay
July 19, 2022Donnie Darko - What's the Meaning of Life?For all its confusion and ambiguity and humanoid rabbits, what major takeaways did Donnie Darko leave us with? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more17minPlay
July 16, 2022The Handmaid's Tale - What's Come True and What Hasn't (Yet)Is America truly becoming Gilead? How much of The Handmaid’s Tale’s terrifying fiction has already come to pass? Maybe more than you’d think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more14minPlay
July 14, 2022Euphoria Rue - A modern portrait of the addictWhat is it about Euphoria’s portrait of Rue and her addiction that feels so honest? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more17minPlay
July 12, 2022The Elder Millennial - A generation lost in timeAs quickly as they arrived, it seems like millennials might be over. So where is the Elder Millennial today – and will they be okay? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more15minPlay
July 11, 2022Stranger Things Season 4’s deeper meaning, explained - Why it’s better than everStranger Things’ epic fourth season hits close to home: unlike in the previous two seasons, the threat feels personal. So what did season 4 really mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...more13minPlay
FAQs about The Take:How many episodes does The Take have?The podcast currently has 514 episodes available.