Season 1
Heartbeat
Heartbeat is a Frankensteined drama made up of hospital genre cliches and unlikable characters, though the cases-of-the-week are sporadically interesting.
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In the premiere, heart-transplant surgeon Alexandra Panttiere, who's as unorthodox in the OR as she is with the two men in her life, takes on a new case.
Alex suggests risky surgery for conjoined twins with cancer; and she questions her relationship with Pierce.
Alex takes on the case of a young man who, due to neurological damage, speaks sentences backwards in order to test new technology. Jesse agrees with the decision, but Millicent doesn't.
Alex and Pierce are at odds about whether the hospital should provide an experimental treatment for patients with advanced-stage cancer. In other events, Max wants to change the family dynamic with Alex; and Ji Sung connects with Callahan.
On the anniversary of her sister's death, Alex performs heart surgery on a patient who fears she can't leave her personal grief out of the operating room. In other events, Millicent dates a sexy artist; and Pierce wants a bigger role in Alex's family.
A case brings back memories for Alex, Jesse and Millicent when they try to save a heart transplant patient who sustained devastating injuries in a car crash.
Alex and Ji Sung fight to save the life of a transgender woman with breast cancer; and a consultant from another hospital forces Jesse to confront his feelings for Alex.
An unlikely donor emerges when Alex's father needs a new kidney; and family secrets threaten the father-daughter bond.
Alex tries to fulfill a dying wish made by a young heart patient.
In the Season 1 finale, a mysterious illness sends the hospital into lockdown; and leaves Alex fighting to save the lives of Jesse, Pierce and Ji-Sung. In other events, Millicent deals with the consequences when Alex disobeys the CDC; and an elderly man's search for his missing wife causes Alex to make a major decision about her love life.
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Genre:Drama
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Network:NBC
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Premiere Date:Mar 22, 2016
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Claude Jeremiah Greengrass


Gina Ward

Alf Ventress

DS Rachel Dawson

Dawn Bellamy

PC Don Wetherby

PC Geoff Younger

Sgt George Miller

Oscar Blaketon

Carol Cassidy

Peggy Armstrong

PC Joe Mason

David Stockwell

Bernie Scripps

PC Phil Bellamy






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Episodes
In the premiere, heart-transplant surgeon Alexandra Panttiere, who's as unorthodox in the OR as she is with the two men in her life, takes on a new case.
Alex suggests risky surgery for conjoined twins with cancer; and she questions her relationship with Pierce.
Alex takes on the case of a young man who, due to neurological damage, speaks sentences backwards in order to test new technology. Jesse agrees with the decision, but Millicent doesn't.
Alex and Pierce are at odds about whether the hospital should provide an experimental treatment for patients with advanced-stage cancer. In other events, Max wants to change the family dynamic with Alex; and Ji Sung connects with Callahan.
On the anniversary of her sister's death, Alex performs heart surgery on a patient who fears she can't leave her personal grief out of the operating room. In other events, Millicent dates a sexy artist; and Pierce wants a bigger role in Alex's family.
A case brings back memories for Alex, Jesse and Millicent when they try to save a heart transplant patient who sustained devastating injuries in a car crash.
Alex and Ji Sung fight to save the life of a transgender woman with breast cancer; and a consultant from another hospital forces Jesse to confront his feelings for Alex.
An unlikely donor emerges when Alex's father needs a new kidney; and family secrets threaten the father-daughter bond.
Alex tries to fulfill a dying wish made by a young heart patient.
In the Season 1 finale, a mysterious illness sends the hospital into lockdown; and leaves Alex fighting to save the lives of Jesse, Pierce and Ji-Sung. In other events, Millicent deals with the consequences when Alex disobeys the CDC; and an elderly man's search for his missing wife causes Alex to make a major decision about her love life.
Critic Reviews for Heartbeat Season 1
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Heartbeat is another forgettable medical drama that... will only leave audiences feeling sorry for doctors and their love lives, and scared to ever enter a hospital like this.
NBC's Heartbeat is an annoying anachronism of a show, a program that openly steals ideas from better shows like Grey's Anatomy, ER and House, but has no idea what to do with them.
The rest of us aren't likely to last much past the scene in which Alex pounds on the glass walls in her boss' office and shrieks, "I'm not leaving without my heart!" Whatever. Just go.
One wishes the series would fixate less on the chaos of [Dr.] Panttiere's love life. For all the longing gazes and hasty workplace hookups, Heartbeat is at its most pulse-pounding when it simply steps back to let her do her job.
Heartbeat seems like a Rhimes show, but it isn't one. It's Grey's Anatomy without the charm.
With its rush-about protagonist flirting, sobbing, threatening, cajoling and commiserating, all the while trying to find the true meaning of something or other. Sedative, please. STAT.
Given the fact that Heartbeat tries to present Alex as a feminist role-model, it's unfortunate that she is defined almost entirely by the men around her.
Mawkishly manipulative when it isn't being annoyingly self-satisfied, Heartbeat works off an overused prescription pad of familiar plot devices.
NBC's new medical drama Heartbeat is Grey's Anatomy for morons.
While the likable cast - which includes D.L. Hughley, Jamie Kennedy and Maya Erskine - is easy to root for, there is little else to distinguish "Heartbeat" from numerous other medical shows.
The show's supporting characters are all some combination of bland, unbelievable, and/or reprehensible.
The moribund midseason series is a patchwork operation that sloppily stitches together bits and pieces of healthier hospital shows, past and present.
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