The Take (previously named ScreenPrism) is a YouTube channel and media company. Co-founded and hosted by
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
alumni Susannah McCullough and Debra Minoff, The Take produces
video essay
A video essay is an essay presented in the format of a video recording or short film rather than a conventional piece of writing; the form often overlaps with other forms of video entertainment on online platforms such as YouTube. A video essay al ...
s 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, technically, a child under the age of 10 who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert. The term is also applied more broadly to describe young people who are extraordinarily talented in some f ...
, the
white savior
The term white savior is a critical description of a White people, white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting Person of color, non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which people of colo ...
and the
Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
The Take has also created the video series ''The Takeaway'' with
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced or co-produced by ...
, the series ''Take Two'' in collaboration with
Netflix
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, and produced a series of Oscar videos for ''
Entertainment Weekly
''Entertainment Weekly'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''EW'') is an American online magazine, digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, ...
''.
The Take's video on
Breaking Bad
''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC (TV channel), AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Breaking Bad), Walter White (Bryan Cran ...
's
Walter White was listed by
Film School Rejects
Film School Rejects is an American blog devoted to movie reviews, interviews, film industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production company, prod ...
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
Daniel Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American media entrepreneur, television host, and author. He is currently the host of '' On Patrol: Live'' on Reelz, and ''The Dan Abrams Show: Where Politics Meets The Law'' on SiriusXM's P.O.T.U.S. cha ...
, ''
Bustle
A bustle is a padded undergarment or wire frame used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses in the mid-to-late 19th century. Bustles are worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skir ...
'' and
The A.V. Club
''The A.V. Club'' is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media. ''The A.V. Club'' was created in ...
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References
External links
* {{official site, https://the-take.com/
YouTube channel
English-language YouTube channels
Video essayists