The Take (previously named ScreenPrism) is a YouTube channel and media company. Co-founded and hosted by
Yale University alumni Susannah McCullough and Debra Minoff, The Take produces
video essays analyzing film, television and popular culture at large.
As of September 2021, The Take's Youtube channel has over 1.3 million subscribers and over 270 million video views.
The Take is known for its "All the Tropes" series, a collection of video essays dissecting character tropes including the "cool girl", the "smart girl", the
child prodigy
A child prodigy is defined in psychology research literature as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain at the level of an adult expert. The term is also applied more broadly to young people who are extraor ...
, the
white savior
The term white savior is a critical description of a white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which people of color in economically under-deve ...
and the
Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
The Take has also created the video series ''The Takeaway'' with
Amazon Prime Video
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, the series ''Take Two'' in collaboration with
Netflix, and produced a series of Oscar videos for ''
Entertainment Weekly''.
The Take's video on
Breaking Bad
''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited hig ...
's
Walter White was listed by
Film School Rejects as one of 2018's best video essays. "Parasite, Ending Explained: Stairway to Nowhere" was named among the top video essays of 2020 by No Film School. The Take’s video essays have also received coverage from
The Mary Sue, ''
Bustle'' and
The A.V. Club.
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See also
* Buzzfeed
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Ken ...
References
External links
* {{official site, https://the-take.com/
YouTube channel
English-language YouTube channels
Video essayists