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
Websitethe-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]

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