'Pulse' Review: Netflix's Diet 'Grey's Anatomy'

The new Netflix medical drama Pulsefeels like one of those seasons of Grey’s Anatomy, when the established series had already earned its confidence and gained audience loyalty. All the characters were familiar, so much so that the showrunners tried to mix things up with creative leaps, such as the plane crash seasons, or Season 17, which revolved around the pandemic. From the get-go, Pulse assumes — blindly or intentionally, it’s still a bit head-scratching — that the audience already cares about the characters on screen and knows them off the bat.