Director: Zoe Robyn
Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Colin Woodell, Jack Bannon, Jessie T. Usher, Jessy Yates
Pulse is a 2025 American medical drama series directed by Zoe Robyn, set inside the high-stakes corridors of a Miami emergency room where a group of ER residents must hold themselves together professionally while a serious allegation threatens to tear their hospital apart.
What is Pulse about?
At a busy Miami hospital, a cohort of emergency medicine residents faces the relentless grind of life-and-death decisions every shift. When a divisive allegation surfaces within the department, it fractures the trust that these doctors depend on to function as a team. Each episode weaves together urgent medical cases with the residents' private lives — ambitions, rivalries, and relationships — as they try to figure out who they are under impossible pressure. The allegation hangs over every interaction, forcing colleagues to pick sides and question their own loyalties even as patients arrive needing their full attention.
Cast & crew
Willa Fitzgerald leads the ensemble as a resident whose composure is tested on multiple fronts, alongside Colin Woodell and Jack Bannon, who bring competing energies to the ER floor. Jessie T. Usher, Jessy Yates, and Chelsea Muirhead round out the resident group, each given storylines that push beyond hospital-procedural convention. Director Zoe Robyn steers the series with a focus on character interiority as much as medical urgency.
Context & significance
Medical dramas have long resonated with Persian-speaking diaspora audiences — healthcare is a profession that many in the Iranian community hold in high regard, and shows like Pulse speak to the pressures of immigrant and first-generation physicians building careers in North American institutions. Pulse is available in its original English audio (no Persian dub or subtitles are currently offered), so viewers comfortable with English will find it immediately accessible. The Miami setting, with its multicultural texture, gives the series a cosmopolitan feel that travels well to diaspora viewers who live in similarly diverse cities across Canada and the United States.
Where & how to watch
Pulse is available on K-Time right now. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.