Netflix: Grey’s Anatomy’s New Rival? Discover the platform’s first medical series

With 19 seasons (and soon to be 20!), Grey’s Anatomy is the most popular medical series of the 2000s, but also the longest running, surpassing ER. Even if other hospital series appeared later, Shonda Rhimes fiction remains unbeatable in terms of audience and fans.

But Netflix is ​​looking to establish itself in this already saturated market by working on its first major medical series. Will it rise to the level of Grey’s Anatomy and overshadow it?

Netflix’s first medical series

we learning The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix has ordered a new project called Pulse, which will be its first medical series to combine drama and procedural. Created by Zoe Robin (The Equalizer), this fiction is set in Miami’s busiest Level 1 trauma center.

This new series stars Danny Sims, a young emergency room doctor who is promoted to chief resident while his love life is in shambles. Like Grey’s Anatomy, Pulse seems to promise spectacular medical cases, moving personal drama and complicated love stories.

A face from Netflix in the casting

If Dan’s translator hasn’t been cast yet, Pulse can already count on a familiar face for Netflix. Indeed, Justina Machado, who starred on the platform in the hit series Au fil fil des jours, was cast as Natalie Cruz, the head of the surgical department.

The actor, winner of a SAG Award and 2 Imagen Awards, is also known for his roles in Six Feet Under, Private Practice, Jane the Virgin and Superstore. The rest of the cast of Pulse is yet to be revealed.

We’ll have to wait a little longer to find out about the series, which will be helmed by Zoe Robin and Carlton Cruise (writer of Jack Ryan and Lock and Key and co-creator of the cult series Lost), who are co-showrunners. .