Pulse (2025)

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 3, 2025
Metascore
48

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 13
  3. Negative: 3 out of 13

Critic Reviews

  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Kathryn VanArendonk
    Apr 4, 2025
    30
    It’s not anything, really, except a frustrating mishmash of many better shows crammed into a blender and pulsed until any specific flavor or texture has been pulverized beyond recognition.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Apr 3, 2025
    30
    Are there reasons to watch all this? Yes. But Dr. Cruz gives good advice ["take me somewhere else."]
  3. Time
    Reviewed by: Judy Berman
    Apr 3, 2025
    30
    It might’ve been possible to extract a fun procedural from this setup, but with Pulse, the execution is even shoddier than the premise. The patients are a blur of slit-open chest cavities. A big supporting cast—including the two strongest actors, Machado and Néstor Carbonell (Lost), who plays a high-ranking surgeon—is wasted in one-note roles.