Heart rates will be soaring for fans of ER, Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs as a new medical drama drops on Netflix.
Pulse premiers this week, bringing a volatile mix of emergency department action and workplace romance to the small screen.
Created by Emmy winner Carlton Cuse and writer Zoe Robyn, the show focuses on trainee doctors based in a medical centre in Florida where professional ambitions and personal relationships complicate an already tension-filled emergency department.
Cuse told Netflix’s Tudum: “Nowadays, your work family can really be, apart from your literal family, the most important community you have.
“The complications that arise — between what’s going on off the clock and on the clock — can get messy.
“It can get confusing. That’s what we wanted to explore with Pulse.”
Pulse follows third-year medical resident Danny (Willa Fitzgerald) as she navigates life and works in the emergency department of Maguire Medical Centre in Miami.
Described by the show’s writer Zoe Robyn as “flawed and fallible”, Danny is unexpectedly promoted when respected chief resident Dr Xander Phillips (Colin Woodell) is suspended.
The pair must then find a way to work together as details of their complicated romance spill out.
Robyn said: “We always endeavoured to make Danny and Phillips’ relationship a real, authentic look at a workplace romance.
“We wanted to play in the grey area of that situation.
“Pulse shows the edges and pitfalls of their relationship — but also all the joyous moments of working a high-pressure job like this.”
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Unlike previous medical series, this show doesn’t aim to portray the doctors as “superheroes”.
“We wanted these characters to be real people who have to go through the relatable issues of working together in a pressure cooker”, said Robyn, “Relationships are forming and breaking apart on Pulse.”
Who is in the cast of Pulse?
Willa Fitzgerald (left) stars as Danny with Colin Woodell as Xander Phillips (Photo: Jeff Neumann/Netflix)
Willa Fitzgerald leads the cast as Danielle “Danny” Simms, a third-year medical resident in emergency medicine at Maguire Hospital who is unexpectedly promoted to chief resident.
The American actress, 34, will be well-known to audiences as Emma Duval in MTV’s Scream.
On television, she has starred in Alpha House as Lola Laffer, Royal Pains as Emma Miller, Dare Me as Colette French, Little Women as Meg March, Reacher as Rosco Ronklin and The Fall of the House of Usher as young Madeline Usher.
She has also appeared in the films The Goldfinch and Relay.
Colin Woodell
Colin Woodell (right) plays Xander Phillips in Pulse (Photo: Jeff Neumann/Netflix)Colin Woodell plays Xander Phillips, a confident, respected and charismatic chief resident of emergency medicine from one of Miami’s most influential medical families who is in a relationship with Danny.
Woodell, 33, starred as Buzz Aldrin in the 2024 film Fly Me to the Moon.
He will be familiar to television audiences as Aiden from The Originals, Ronald Sturgis from Masters of Sex, Buckley Ware/Feliks from The Flight Attendant and Winston Scott from The Continental: From the World of John Wick.
Colin Woodell as Xander Phillips and Jack Bannon as Tom Cole (left to right) (Photo: Lisa Tanner/Netflix)
Jack Bannon takes on the role of Tom Cole, a witty and charming Brit who came to Maguire as a second-year surgical resident.
British actor Bannon, 34, rose to fame playing Sam Thursday in the ITV series Endeavour. He has also starred as Angelo Poliziano in Medici, Alfred Pennyworth in Pennyworth and Lukas in The Darkness.
On film, he appeared as Christopher Morcom in The Imitation Game and Felix in Kids in Love.
Chelsea Muirhead
Willa Fitzgerald as Danny, Chelsea Muirhead as Sophie Chan, and Colin Woodell as Xander Phillips (left to right) in Pulse (Photo: Jeff Neumann/Netflix)Chelsea Muirhead stars as Sophie Chan, a surgical intern who is smart, capable and willing to endure anything to become a great surgeon.
The Canadian actress of Filipino-Scottish heritage played Yan Mi in the television series Warrior and Sasha in Slo Pitch.
She also appeared as Megan in the 2024 TV film A Chef’s Deadly Revenge.
The cast of Pulse also includes:
Jessie T Usher as Sam Elijah (The Boys, Smile, Dangerous Lies) Daniela Nieves as Camila Perez (Vampire Academy, Save Me) Jessy Yates as Harper Simms (Skillsville, Me) Justina Machado as Natalie Cruz (Happy’s Place, The Horror of Dolores Roach) Santiago Segura as Gabriel Moreno (Scream: The TV series, Walker: Independence) Jessica Rothe as Cass Himmelstein (Virgin River, Utopia) Néstor Carbonell as Dr Ruben Soriano (Motherland, The Morning Show, The Dark Knight films) Arturo Del Puerto as Luis Dominguez (The Lincoln Lawyer, For All Mankind, Big Sky) Sophia Torres as Vero Cruz (9-1-1: Lone Star, Come Find Me) Ash Santos as Nia Washington (Mayor of Kingstown, True Story)When is Pulse on Netflix and how many episodes are there?
Pulse debuts on Netflix on Thursday, 3 April, with all 10 episodes available to binge-watch.
The series will launch at 12am (local time), which is 8am (BST).
However, viewers will need a Netflix subscription, which starts at £5.99 a month.
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