The Take (YouTube channel)

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.^[2][3][4] As of September 2021, The Take's Youtube channel has over 1.3 million subscribers and over 270 million video views.^[5]

The Take
Website	the-take.com
YouTube information
Channel	The Take
Years active	2016–present
Genre	Video essay
Subscribers	1.40 million[1]
Views	318.55 million[1]
Last updated: 14 July 2022

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.^{[6][7][8][9][10]} 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.^{[11][12][13][14]}

The Take's video on Breaking Bad's Walter White was listed by Film School Rejects as one of 2018's best video essays.^[15] "Parasite, Ending Explained: Stairway to Nowhere" was named among the top video essays of 2020 by No Film School.^[16] The Take’s video essays have also received coverage from The Mary Sue, Bustle and The A.V. Club.^[17][18][7]