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Pulse Is DOA


Time of death: end of the first scene.

The sequence looks like a poorly rendered outtake from a video game circa 2012, a bus-shaped object nose-diving into waveless water as one-dimensional storm clouds gather behind. There is no need for the theatrics of establishing disaster footage; these patients could simply stream into the ER, freezing and terrified, allowing the doctors to react in revealing, human ways. What remains is a season of TV where people wear scrubs and yell about intubations and central lines, and underneath it all there’s a story about one woman’s unnecessary, unfounded anxiety.

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