‘Pulse’ Bosses on Danny and Xander’s Messy Power Dynamic, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Comparisons and Season 2 Plans

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Max Gao SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains major spoilers from “Pulse,” now streaming on Netflix. The relationship between emergency department residents Danielle “Danny” Simms (Willa Fitzgerald) and Xander Phillips (Colin Woodell) was always going to be the lifeblood of Netflix’s “Pulse.” Over the course of 10 episodes, the new Miami-set medical drama — which is the streamer’s first English-language foray into the genre — delves into the gendered complications of a workplace romance between a male superior (fourth-year Chief Resident and incoming attending Phillips) and a female subordinate (third-year Simms).

After an emotional, mutual declaration of “I love you” at Maguire Medical Center’s residents’ retreat spiralled into a blowout fight over the consequences of disclosing their year-long relationship, Danny, at the suggestion of her fellow physician sister Harper (Jessy Yates), reported Phillips for sexual harassment.

With a hurricane barreling toward Miami, emergency department and surgery chief Natalie Cruz (Justina Machado) decided to keep Phillips temporarily on shift but made Danny the interim chief resident — a controversial move that only intensified the scrutiny around the nature of the exes’ relationship.

Following the hurricane, which lasted three episodes, Danny and Phillips were left to grapple with their conflicting interpretations of their romance.