Gus's Media and Society Blog

            NO OTHER CHOICE - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters Christmas No Other Choice is a black comedy/thriller Korean film from the director Park Chan-wook. Park Chan-wook is a critically acclaimed director having made multiple beloved films, including Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2019), and the Vengeance movies, which notably include Oldboy (2003). I have seen all of his movies, and each has at least been great, if not fantastic. No Other Choice continues this trend, another extremely entertaining and interesting movie in Park Chan-wook’s lineup.  No Other Choice follows Yoo Man-su, someone who was just laid off after working for a company for 25 years. Forced back into the Korean job market, which is going through a record high unemployment rate, Yoo Man-su turns to killing other job applicants for a manager role at a new company in order to put himself ahead. As the movie goes on, Yoo Man-su struggles with his actions, and his family sta...

       For the media blog project 1, I am watching an award winning, HBO’s The Pitt. I watched the most recent episode at the time, Season 2 Episode 4, on Febuarary the 4th, 2026. The show releases episodes weekly, so there will be another episode released by the time I am finished with this project. The Pitt is a medical drama with emphetises on the medical. In other medical dramas, for example, Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs, the actual practice of medicine takes a back seat to the characters' interactions, and more so serves to just give the shows a place to be set in. This is not the case with The Pitt. The medical procedures and practices take center stage and are the driving force for the drama that takes place in the show. The main motivating force for the characters is their reactions to the medical situations that are being thrust upon them. The structure of each season is that each episode takes place over an hour of a singular full shift at a Pittsburgh hospita...