The Take (YouTube channel)

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The Take
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–present
GenreVideo essay
Subscribers1.52 million
Views465 million
Last updated: 22 October 2025
Website the-take.com

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. [1] [2] [3] As of July 2025, The Take's Youtube channel has over 1.5 million subscribers and over 457 million video views. [4]

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, the white savior and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] The Take has also created the video series The Takeaway with Amazon Prime Video, the series Take Two in collaboration with Netflix, and produced a series of Oscar videos for Entertainment Weekly . [10] [11] [12] [13]

The Take's video on Breaking Bad's Walter White was listed by Film School Rejects as one of 2018's best video essays. [14] "Parasite, Ending Explained: Stairway to Nowhere" was named among the top video essays of 2020 by No Film School. [15] The Take’s video essays have also received coverage from The Mary Sue, Bustle and The A.V. Club. [16] [17] [6]

References

  1. ↑ Shotwell, Alyssa (March 16, 2019). "LIST: 10 women you should be watching on YouTube". Playbuzz . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Five New York Tech Companies to Watch (March 2018)". Tech:NYC . March 22, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  3. ↑ "ScreenPrism Rebrands as "The Take," Bringing Film, TV and Pop Culture Analysis to Millions". Benzinga. March 13, 2019. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  4. ↑ "The Take - YouTube". YouTube . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  5. ↑ Hellerman, Jason (December 26, 2019). "The 'Cool Girl' Trope: Real Life Fantasy, Screenwriting Nightmare". No Film School. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Ihnat, Gwen (February 4, 2020). "Tracking the evolution of the "smart girl" trope in pop culture". The A.V. Club . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  7. ↑ Chanthavisith, Kayla (September 3, 2021). "20 YouTube Video Essay and Commentary Channels You Should Watch". Her Campus . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  8. ↑ Latter, Anaya (November 29, 2020). "Viva the video essay: 10 recommended screen analysis videos on YouTube". Australian Centre for the Moving Image . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  9. ↑ Elderkin, Beth (April 9, 2020). "10 YouTube Essays That'll Broaden Your Pop Culture Education". Gizmodo . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  10. ↑ "A Star Is Born's deeper message explained: Don't be 'Shallow'". Entertainment Weekly . February 17, 2019. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Watch: How Alfonso Cuarón brought life to Roma". Entertainment Weekly . February 21, 2019. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  12. ↑ "The Expanse Season 5 Ending Explained | The Takeaway | Prime Video". YouTube. 4 February 2021. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Is Rebecca a Love Story? | Take Two | Netflix". YouTube. 31 October 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
  14. ↑ Shields, Meg (December 13, 2018). "The Best Video Essays of 2018". Film School Rejects . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  15. ↑ V Renée (December 30, 2020). "Our Favorite Video Essays of 2020". No Film School. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  16. ↑ Weekes, Princess (April 23, 2019). "The #OneMarvelousScene Series Is a Perfect Tribute to the MCU & Video Essays". The Mary Sue . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  17. ↑ Ferber, Taylor (March 26, 2019). "This Video Has Actual Evidence To Support An 'Office' Theory That Kelly & Andy Are Soulmates". Bustle . Retrieved September 22, 2021.
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