The hospital drama Breathless is currently storming the Netflix charts and, like Grey’s Anatomy, features young doctors in dicey life-and-death situations
Since August 30, 2024, the Spanish doctors from the first Netflix hospital series, which is currently in third place in the series charts, have been fighting their way breathlessly through the night and day shifts. This is Breathless by series creator Carlos Montero, who was previously at home on the streaming service with the school drama Elite.
Elite fans also make up a large part of the viewership, as one of the central doctors is Dr. Biel de Felipe, played by Manu Ríos. A comment under the trailer even makes a joke about it: “So Patrick [from Elite] went to med school after graduation, nice. ”
Breathless on Netflix: This is what Netflix’s first hospital series is about
At the Joaquín Sorolla Hospital in Valencia, things are going haywire. While the staff give their all to care for the lives of their patients, political forces set about dismantling the public healthcare system. Then comes the great irony: Patricia Segura (Najwa Nimri), the president of Valencia, who is considered a great enemy of social medicine, is admitted to the hospital terminally ill and is dependent on the very system she wants to abolish.
As with Grey’s Anatomy and other medical soap operas, the turbulent private lives of the attractive doctors naturally also come into play. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Blanca Suárez and Abril Zamora, among others, also have roles.
For Netflix, Breathless is actually the first and only in-house production from the medical drama genre – at least until the English-language Pulse, which has already been ordered, appears in the online video library. Although there are some K-dramas with medical professionals, these are bought-in formats that previously ran on Korean television.
Eight episodes of Breathless went online on Netflix as part of the first season. A 2nd season has not yet been diagnosed.
And while a new Netflix era of hospital series is dawning, another is coming to an end …
