If the success of Max's The Pitt is any indication, medical dramas are again — and Netflix's Pulse is able to carry the torch.

Pulse co-showrunner Carlton Cuse acknowledges that the 2 reveals have separate takes on the emergency room, the place each are set. "It's onerous to observe plenty of these reveals and significantly The Pitt, which I feel is rather well accomplished, however it’s considerably totally different than our present," Cuse stated in an interview with Leisure Weekly.

"The Pitt is fantastically researched and executed. I feel there's room for several types of reveals and we had been far more eager about specializing in the character facet of issues," he continued. "For us, it was actually an exploration of what’s it prefer to have a very intense private relationship in a office."

Set in a Miami hospital, Pulse options an ensemble of medical doctors, nurses, and EMTs. The premise pairs procedural components with the story of a younger physician, Danny (Willa Fitzgerald), who recordsdata a sexual harassment criticism in opposition to her superior and ex-boyfriend, Xander (Colin Woodell).

Co-showrunner Zoe Robyn advised EW that Pulse "got here from a very private place," explaining, "I used to be, on the time, in a relationship much like the one Danny finds herself in. And I felt like I couldn't actually discuss to anybody about it. I fearful about what individuals would suppose if I advised anybody, and I doubted my very own sense of actuality of what the connection was. It was this kind of therapeutic follow to jot down the character of Danny and discover my very own fears in regards to the hypotheticals that would occur if I had been to go public and inform anybody."

The Pulse forged is crammed with massive personalities and acquainted faces. Learn on to study extra in regards to the actors underneath the scrubs with EW's forged and character information.

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Willa Fitzgerald as Danielle “Danny” Simms

Willa Fitzgerald's first TV function discovered her appearing reverse John Goodman and Billy Murray on Amazon Prime's Alpha Home (2013–2014). The Nashville-born actress returned to Amazon for a key supporting flip in Reacher's first season (2022). She's doubtless finest identified for main MTV's Scream series (2015–2016), although she turned heads because the star of final yr's indie thriller Strange Darling (2024).

Fitzgerald leads Pulse as Danny Simms, a third-year medical resident who just lately filed a sexual harassment declare in opposition to her boss, Dr. Xander Phillips.

"There's rather a lot there," Fitzgerald advised Glamour in regards to the function. "Danny's sort of in a powder keg state of affairs, the place not solely does she have this romantic relationship that's creating battle in her life at work, however she additionally works along with her youthful sister, they usually have a really difficult home-life historical past."

In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, she elaborated on the "ill-fated" relationship between Danny and Xander. "As a lot as they love one another, there’s an important mismatch taking place, which is deeply tragic, and I feel it’s accomplished in a very cool manner within the season," she stated.

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Colin Woodell as Xander Phillips

Colin Woodell has appeared in a number of hit reveals, together with ABC's Devious Maids (2014), The CW's The Originals (2014, 2018), and Max's The Flight Attendant (2020). He just lately performed astronaut Buzz Aldrin within the Scarlett Johansson-starring Fly Me to the Moon (2024) and led Peacock's John Wick prequel The Continental: From the World of John Wick as a younger iteration of Ian McShane's Winston Scott.

Woodell's Xander is a revered physician from a household of revered medical doctors, however his integrity known as into query following Danny's allegations.

He talked in regards to the complexity of their relationship with Harper's Bazaar, saying, "Personally, if I had been to fall in love with somebody after which need to see them each day at work, [I’d think about] how onerous that might be. I feel there’s part of him that wonders how he’ll be capable to even perform."

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Jessie T. Usher as Sam Elijah

Jessie T. Usher was a daily on Cartoon Community's Stage Up and Starz's Survivor's Regret earlier than touchdown the function of A-Practice on The Boys, which he's starred in throughout 4 seasons and counting. His movie credit embody Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Shaft (2019), and Smile (2022).

Usher performs Dr. Sam Elijah, a third-year resident and shut pal of Danny's.

After saying Pulse has "the texture of early Gray's Anatomy," Usher advised ScreenRant that it was a refreshing expertise after so a few years on The Boys. "I didn't understand how darkish and twisted my filmmaking thoughts had been till I acquired over to a present the place we're saving individuals as a substitute of killing them," he stated. "So, it's simply good to flip the swap."

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Jack Bannon as Tom Cole

English actor Jack Bannon is a TV common within the U.Ok., and sure finest identified to American audiences for Pennyworth (2019–2022), a prequel collection about Batman's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, and his previous within the Particular Air Service (SAS).

Bannon stars as Tom Cole, a second-year resident with an irresistible accent and a wandering eye on the subject of the ladies in his life. Talking with Tudum, Cuse revealed that the character wasn't written as English. “We liked [Bannon] a lot that we adjusted the function to suit who he was as an actor.”

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Justina Machado as Natalie Cruz

Justina Machado first charmed audiences as Six Toes Beneath's Vanessa Diaz in all 5 seasons of the HBO collection. Within the years since, she's been a daily on a number of beloved collection, together with Jane the Virgin (2016–2019) and One Day at a Time (2017–2020). In 2020, she was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, touchdown in fourth place alongside accomplice Sasha Farber.

Machado's Natalie is the hospital's chair of surgical procedure and emergency medication, which means she winds up proper within the heart of the mess between Danny and Xander. The creators have massive plans for her if the collection will get picked up for extra seasons.

"Justina Machado is so wonderful, and I'm actually excited personally to dive into her as a personality separate from the Danny subject," Robyn advised EW.

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Chelsea Muirhead as Sophie Chan

Previous to becoming a member of Pulse, Chelsea Muirhead starred on Slo Pitch (2020–2022), a Canadian internet collection that later discovered a house on IFC, and the Max collection Warrior (2023).

Muirhead's Sophie Chan is a surgical intern with a fierce work ethic and an uneasy relationship with Bannon's Tom.

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"She's very near me," Muirhead advised Yahoo Canada about what appealed to her about taking part in Sophie. "Within the breakdown, we don't actually get a lot info, and I simply take no matter job comes round, however as we had been engaged on her, essentially the most fascinating factor for me taking part in Sophie, one thing that I actually needed to inject into her … profession and life, was all of her fears, all of her hopes and goals. I needed to verify she was a three-dimensional individual, so I injected plenty of myself into her to attempt to determine some stuff."

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Daniela Nieves as Camila Perez

A former telenovela star, Daniela Nieves discovered success within the States with main roles on Nickelodeon's Each Witch Means (2014–2015) and Peacock's Vampire Academy (2022).

A 3rd-year medical pupil, Tudum describes Nieves' Camila Perez as being "optimistic regardless of lengthy hours and an limitless workload." A key a part of Camila's arc is her friendship with Muirhead's Sophie, whom she helps to loosen up and focus only a bit much less on work.

"[When] you're working so onerous your entire life, … making an attempt to be a surgeon, … one thing I feel that's pushed to the facet is slightly little bit of life," Muirhead advised Yahoo Canada about her character's relationship with Camila. "She's studying how one can have mates and how one can ask for assist and how one can stay, not simply be alive."

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Jessy Yates as Harper Simms

Jessy Yates was beforehand a collection common on Apple TV+'s Me (2024) and the PBS youngsters's present Skillsville (2025). Like many younger actors, she appeared in an episode of Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit (2021).

Yates performs Harper Simmons, Danny's youthful sister who’s additionally on her strategy to changing into a physician. Like her character, Yates makes use of a wheelchair. “Jessy got here on set and did such an unimaginable job. She actually blossomed,” Robyn advised Tudum. “I feel the sister relationship between Harper and Danny could be very deep, they usually made it so.”

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Fitzgerald mentioned Danny's relationship with Harper with Glamour, saying, "Being an older sibling, so usually your accountability is to guard, take care of, and be a secondary mum or dad to the youthful sibling or siblings. I feel it’s actually difficult to navigate that kind of dynamic when there’s previous guilt concerned, and when there’s a office concerned within the current."

She continued, "These two issues are available battle rather a lot, and there’s additionally the very actual rising pains of being caught prior to now with somebody who doesn’t need to be caught prior to now anymore. In some methods, Danny is dealing with her sister with child gloves due to Danny’s personal guilt. I feel that’s a very onerous factor for each events in that state of affairs to tolerate."

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Jessica Rothe as Cass Himmelstein

A budding scream queen, Jessica Rothe arrived on viewers's radars as Tree Gelbman, the hero of slasher-comedy Happy Death Day (2017) and its 2019 sequel. On tv, you might need seen Rothe on Amazon Prime's Utopia (2020) and Netflix's Virgin River (2024).

A senior ER nurse, Rothe's Cass is balancing the breakneck tempo of her unimaginable job whereas navigating a love triangle with Tom and EMT Nia.

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Arturo Del Puerto as Luis Dominguez

Arturo Del Puerto's tv profession encompasses community staples (Chicago P.D., NCIS, CSI) and critically-acclaimed dramas (For All Mankind, Concern the Strolling Useless). He's additionally appeared in movies like Experience Alongside 2 (2016) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

Together with Rothe's Cass, his Luis Dominguez is an ER nurse. Tudem describes his character as "unflappable amid the chaos — and by no means sacrifices his signature wit."

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Ash Santos as Nia Washington

Bronx-born Ash Santos has labored with two of right now's most prolific TV makers as a daily on Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story: Apocalypse (2018) and Taylor Sheridan's Mayor of Kingstown (2023–2024).

As Santos tells it, she auditioned 3 times for Pulse — first for Camila after which for Cass — earlier than scoring the function of EMT Nia Washington, the third a part of the love triangle additionally involving Tom and Cass.

"Nia Washington is from a small city in Florida and comes from an enormous household," Santos defined to What's On Netflix. "She’s Dominican like me and comes from a household the place being a paramedic was one of the crucial unimaginable issues she may ever do along with her life as a result of most of her household tends to simply keep in that city, as not plenty of alternative is afforded to them."

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Néstor Carbonell as Dr. Ruben Soriano

Veteran movie and tv actor Néstor Carbonell rose to prominence on turn-of-the-century sitcoms like Instantly Susan (1996–2000) and The Tick (2001–2002) earlier than taking part in the mysterious Richard Alpert on Misplaced (2007–2010) and Sheriff Alex Romero on Bates Motel (2013–2017). Final yr, he gained an Emmy for his visitor activate FX's Shogun.

Carbonell's Ruben is a senior surgeon who's described as "revered and generally feared."

“We needed some actors with authority that might lead this hospital, and we needed them to be Latino medical doctors as a result of that is Miami," Cuse advised Tudum. "And Miami is mostly a Latin metropolis. We couldn’t have requested for 2 higher individuals than Néstor and Justina, who’re actually good mates off-screen.”

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