Netflix viewers slam ‘embarrassing’ new series with complaints that it ‘couldn’t have come at a worse time’

'Pulse' creators discuss season 1: 'We definitely didn't want to do a gotcha story'

Co-showrunners Carlton Cuse and Zoe Robyn discuss their Netflix medical series. Lisa Tanner/Netflix Willa Fitzgerald and Colin Woodell on 'Pulse'Key PointsPulse co-showrunners Zoe Robyn and Carlton Cuse discuss the pressures of following The Pitt.Robyn reveals her personal connection to the story.The executive producers explain the season 1 ending and what they'd like to explore in a potential season 2. (Hint: More Justina Machado!)This article …

Netflix viewers slam ‘embarrassing’ new series with complaints that it ‘couldn’t have come at a worse time’

Fans have slammed the new medical drama Pulse

Netflix’s Pulse Feels Like AI-Generated Grey’s Anatomy

“Did you watch a lot of Grey’s Anatomy growing up?” It’s a question asked in the second episode of Pulse, a new medical drama now streaming on Netflix, by Willa Fitzgerald’s Dr. Danny Simms, a waifish blonde not unlike Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Grey. Her fellow physician Camila (Daniela Nieves) confirms that she has. “Okay,” Danny replies. “Try to unlearn that.” The show could stand to take its own medicine. Created by Zoe Robyn, an alum of networ…

Netflix’s ‘Pulse’ Feels Like AI-Generated ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

A new medical drama that centers on a waifish blonde’s power-imbalanced love affair with her dreamy superior only underscores the staying power of Grey’s.

‘Pulse’ review: Netflix attempts its own version of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

“Grey’s Anatomy” was the second most-streamed show of 2024.  New episodes premiere on ABC and, 21 seasons in, the network shows no signs of stopping. It’s safe to assume that will extend the show’s popularity on streaming as well. So it makes sense that Netflix would want to capitalize on that audience with its own 10-episode original series called “Pulse,” a hospital drama so similar to “Grey’s,” the young medical resident at its center even lo…

For its first English-language medical series, launched on Thursday, April 3, the platform fails to innovate and gets bogged down in a particularly clumsy intrigue of sexual harassment.