*Image Source: Trope Anatomy (shocking)*

By Ava Fineza

I have recently been watching a lot of videos from a channel called Trope Anatomy. I love watching video essays(I live to learn :> put that on a shirt), but I hadn’t ever found one channel that covers a lot of the media I’m interested in until I found this one. His videos cover tropes, which are essentially commonly used themes, characters, and plots that are found in movies and TV, and I really enjoy them. The videos span from 8 to 18 minutes, and they succeed at being both informational and entertaining, a task that other channels can lose people on if it’s all lecture, lecture, lecture. He uses one of my favorite thinking map styles, the Compare and Contrast, pictured here:

Obviously Trope Anatomy doesn’t use thinking maps, but his videos normally provide good and bad examples of a trope, giving reasons why some examples fail and why others succeed. Like I said before, I’ve been really liking a lot of his videos recently, and I think he can become a reliable channel to visit for quality video essays on TV and movies. Check him out if you’d like, I think he deserves your audience!

These are some of my favorite videos he’s done so far. His channel is here if you want to check it out!

Trope Anatomy

James Acaster

Jo Koy