Pulse

My favourite show of the week (it's a tie with Utopia). Alright, I'm a sucker for beautiful women, especially, beautiful women who can play character roles. There is a separate review that wants to critique the hospital procedures. Me, I'm just gobsmacked to see innards exposed and organs such as a beating heart exposed and held in a surgeon's hands. The storyline is emotionally draining, so my wife won't watch it. Me, I'm captivated by the emotional demands put on the viewer by both the life and death decisions being made daily in the hospital and the career-changing political undercurrents. It's an aptly named series. My pulse quickens in response to both the beauty and stresses laid bare.

I wasn't expecting to like this show as much as I did. I'm lucky as I was able to binge watch it on Netflix so didn't have to wait on episodes airing over the course of 8 weeks. I grew to care able the Doctors and their patients. I just wish a second two had been made as I would love to watch more.

A superior hospital drama with excellent acting all round. Well deserves a second series. In many ways it sets a benchmark for this type of drama.

Having been in hospital more than I would like, this show is a brilliant and thoughtful view of both the patient and the doctor's experience.

It should be renewed. It strikes at the heart of our healthcare system in all its glory and failures.

Well written and thoughtful it's disappointing that this promising cast and the people behind the show were not given more time to grow their audience.

I have become hooked on this medical drama. Unlike other reviewers, I only see the medical professional and public hospitals from the patient's point of view. I can understand why some in the medical profession would find this series confronting: the level of bullying of junior staff by their seniors, the level of male chauvinism among the surgeons, the arrogance, the "faces of Janus" when dealing with patients. Maybe some of the medical procedures are not quite correct but, Dr.Patel, perhaps hospitals in reality aren't quite correct either! The several sub-plots make this series a cut above the sentimental soap operas that usually frequent this genre: the health of the main characters, the professional pressure to "bury their mistakes", the elicit affairs between senior staff and those whom they supervise, the "glass ceiling" that seems to prevent women from becoming senior surgeons, the nepotism that ensures that the children of senior medical staff follow in their parents' footsteps. While many series have multi-cultural casts simply to be politically correct, "Pulse" reflects the true multi-ethnic make-up of Australian hospitals. Highly recommended.