Best Medicine

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2026

Drama
Comedy

Summary

A brilliant surgeon abruptly leaves his career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Comedy drama based on ITV series Doc Martin, starring Josh Charles

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Review

David Brown

For those familiar with Doc Martin, this initially feels less like a re-imagining and more like a repeat prescription. The setting may have shifted from Cornwall to Maine and Martin Clunes has made way for Josh Charles (formerly of The Good Wife), but the essentials remain intact. Martin – who’s been given the surname Best rather than Ellingham – is still the exasperated fish-out-of- water MD, still battling a blood phobia, and still circling a tentative romance with schoolteacher Louisa (Abigail Spencer).

So why bother at all? Well, the same was once asked about The Office, which went on to carve out a distinct identity of its own. And here, there are early signs of something rather similar.

This time, there’s a suggestion that Martin’s bluntness will be unpacked: a childhood bully resurfaces, and hints of a deeper sadness begin to emerge.

Perhaps, then, this is a version willing to probe where its predecessor largely observed. For now, it may just require a quality the doctor himself lacks: patience.

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6.8/10