'Best Medicine' on FOX: See the Reviews & New Time Slot Details
Best Medicine is back at a new time tonight (Tuesday, January 13)!
After making its series premiere earlier this month on Sunday, January 4, all-new episodes of Best Medicine continue to air on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on FOX, beginning Tuesday, January 13.
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Here’s a synopsis: “The charmingly complicated one-hour dramedy Best Medicine is based on the critically acclaimed and beloved global hit Doc Martin. The series follows Martin Best (Charles), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, including schoolteacher Louisa Gavin (Spencer).”
“He quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they have. Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he’s really just desperate to be left the hell alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. What the locals don’t know is that Martin’s terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and deep-seated psychological issues that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.”
The series also stars Josh Segarra and Annie Potts.
The show currently commands a 73% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 39% audience score.
The LA Times says: “On the whole, it’s cuter, milder, more cuddly (multiple vomit jokes notwithstanding), more obvious and more whimsical, but less real, less intense and less sharply written than Doc Martin.”
The Boston Globe says: “They’re caricatures, not characters, and their antics start to feel a little debasing. Best Medicine certainly doesn’t deify small-town life; nor does the show condemn it. Instead, it amps up the quirk factor as high as it can go.”
The Hollywood Reporter writes: “Warm as a wool blanket, inviting as a hug and about as plausible as a fairy tale, Best Medicine offers a gift to the viewer: It allows us to imagine, at least for one hour a week, that there might be a cozier, happier, more sociable way to live.”
Decider writes: “We enjoyed the quirky fun of the first episode of Best Medicine, as well as the layered performances of Josh Charles and Abigail Spencer.”
RogerEbert.com says: “Best Medicine is a small, thin blanket of a show, terrible for curling up under, regardless of the season or your side of the Atlantic.”
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