Pulse Cancelled at Netflix After 1 Season

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It’s time to stop compressions on Netflix’s Pulse: The medical drama has been cancelled after just one season, per our sister site Deadline. Its April 3 freshman finale now doubles as its series finale.

TVLine has reached out to the streamer for confirmation. (Its Uzo Aduba-led murder mystery The Residence has also been axed after one season.)

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Pulse followed the doctors and surgeons at Miami’s Maguire Medical Center, namely the complicated relationship between colleagues-turned-lovers Danny Simms (Reacher‘s Willa Fitzgerald) and Xander Phillips (The Originals‘ Colin Woodell). As the rest of the ER staff was left to process the fallout of Danny and Xander’s illicit romance, they balanced their own personal and professional challenges while working under the pressure of life-or-death stakes.

The series’ ensemble also included Justina Machado (One Day at a Time), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys), Jack Bannon (Pennyworth), Jessy Yates (Me), Chelsea Muirhead (Warrior) and Daniela Nieves (Vampire Academy).

Though Pulse did tie up many of its loose storyline ends in the Season 1 finale, a few were left dangling: Rather than keep Natalie Cruz (Machado) in charge of both surgery and the ER, the hospital opted to divvy up those leadership roles, promoting ER attending doctor Patrick Sanchez (Manifest‘s J.R. Ramirez) to chair of emergency medicine — and he and Cruz didn’t see eye-to-eye. Case in point: Although Cruz endorsed Danny for the role of chief resident, Sanchez decided to go a different way, naming Dr. Elijah (Usher) chief resident in the finale instead.

TVLine readers gave Pulse‘s first (and now only) season an overall average grade of “C.” How do you feel about the show’s fate? Weigh in below!

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