00:00The storm, it's going to be a direct hit, but we are understaffed.
00:03It would be to everyone's benefit that Dr. Phillips stays to help.
00:06Do you agree, Dr. Sims?
00:07Yeah, it's a hurricane. I'm not risking lives to avoid awkwardness.
00:12Netflix's new medical drama Pulse centers on a group of ambitious residents
00:15navigating personal and professional crises in one of Miami's busiest emergency rooms.
00:21When stars Willa Fitzgerald and Colin Waddell set down with The Hollywood Reporter
00:25to chat all about the new show, they weighed in on the social media response so far.
00:29Oh, I have state officers. I'm scared of reading things I don't want to read.
00:34But I've been getting them filtered to me through friends.
00:37All the positives.
00:38Yeah, well, people seem to be really excited about talking about the show.
00:42I have a lot of great people in my life who are telling me what's happening on Reddit.
00:46My mom and I chatted yesterday, and she started telling me the things.
00:49I was like, Mom, we're going to have to stop right there.
00:51A lot of it's good, but it's a divisive show, right?
00:54It's a divisive subject matter, and I think there's a lot of people who want to pick sides, right?
00:58And I think because of that, there's...
01:00I think that's good, though.
01:01I think the things that I always want to watch are the things that do have some mixed opinions
01:06about what's happening.
01:08Like, I don't ever trust if something's got, you know, just, like, all positives.
01:12Yeah, it's all happy endings and whatnot.
01:15But yeah, there's definitely...
01:16It's great.
01:17I think it's what we were going after.
01:18Medical shows have long been popular, but it seems like they're having a moment right now
01:22with series like Pulse and the max drama The Pit.
01:24Fitzgerald and Waddell shared why they think viewers are drawn to medical shows.
01:29I mean, I think it's built-in stakes.
01:31I think that there's automatically, you know, life or death stakes, which is kind of the driver
01:37of good drama.
01:38And I think on top of that, when you have kind of, like, that humanity already as the backdrop
01:43of the show, you can build all of these, like, other sides of humanity on top of that.
01:49And I think it's just, like, a great structure for exploring.
01:53That's why they're all so different, right?
01:54Yeah.
01:54I mean, because of what you just said.
01:56Season one of Pulse just hit Netflix in early April.
01:59If the show gets a second season, the actors revealed what storylines they'd love to see
02:03explored.
02:04I mean, I feel like there's so many possibilities.
02:07I mean, there's a lot of people I didn't get to talk to in the hospital very much.
02:09Like, I really did love all of my scenes with Jack.
02:12Yeah.
02:12Like, Cole, whenever I got to, like, the scene in which Cole and I were in the surgery room
02:17together during the blackout, it was very fun.
02:19You two hate each other.
02:19Yeah.
02:20Yeah.
02:20Well, but I think there's also a little bit of, like, I see you.
02:23Yeah.
02:23Yeah, I think that interest, yeah.
02:25Like, I think that there's something really interesting there, and I would love to kind
02:27of see more.
02:29I want to meet my dad.
02:30Yes.
02:31I want to meet Alexander Phillips, because we met my mom, but I think there's a lot of fun
02:34to explore, you know, whoever he is and his big personality, because he likely has
02:40one.
02:41Totally.
02:41Yeah, it's going to be fun.
02:42The stars also weighed in on what they think the future might hold for their two characters,
02:46Danny Sims and Xander Phillips.
02:48I think that there's always possibility.
02:51I think that fundamentally, there are two people who were not ready for that relationship at
02:54the time that it happened, who, like, were not equipped with the skills necessary to communicate
03:00effectively and see effectively.
03:03And I think that, you know, there's certainly the possibility for a future there, I would think.
03:08They're both at the same hospital.
03:09They both are still working together.
03:11But he's also still her boss, which is another complication.
03:14Hopefully, they've learned from that.
03:15But yeah.
03:15Yeah.
03:16I'm so, I will be so interested to see if we get to, if we get more scripts.
03:20Yeah.
03:20100%.
03:21Pulse is now streaming on Netflix.
03:23For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
03:26We'll see you then.
03:27We'll see you then.
03:28Ooh.
03:28Let's see you then.
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