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What Pulse Should Have Learned From The Pitt
What Netflix got wrong with its first medical procedural.
Anyone who watched the wave of social-media interest in The Pitt grow last winter could see it with their own eyes: Every Thursday and Friday, platforms like Occupied Twitter and BlueSky were filled with posts expressing their love for the series and its characters and the “They did what?” story lines. While no doubt the show’s March release was penciled in long before anyone at the streamer knew just how big The Pitt would be, once the first rapturous reviews started coming right after New Year’s, it should have been obvious the Max Original was, at the very least, going to grab the media’s attention for the next few months. But given the co-showrunner on Pulse was the broadcast vet Carlton Cuse, I’m pretty sure he and creator Zoe Robyn could have figured out how to make a more cost-efficient version of their series in exchange for more episodes — had Netflix made that a priority.
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