In the post peak-tv landscape of 2025, as the streaming bubble has burst 50 times over, what once was old is new again. The public yearns for the days of linear television’s dominance, when their favorite shows aired seasons longer than six episodes and took hiatuses shorter than three years. And from these cries, a staple television genre has come back in a blaze of glory: the medical procedural.

Netflix has “Pulse,” a (very bad) soapy romance in a hospital that feels like a conscious throwback to mid-2000s peak “Grey’s Anatomy.” ABC has “Doctor Odyssey,” a cheeky cocktail of Ryan Murphy excess starring Joshua Jackson as a DILFy cruise ship physician. NBC has “St. Denis Medical,” an amusing mockumentary sitcom set at a hospital, and “Brilliant Minds,” which is basically “House” if House was explicitly gay. CBS has “Watson,” which is also basically just “House” except based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes sidekick.