Best Medicine (2026)

Comedy · Drama

Martin Best is 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, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he's all they’ve got.

IMDb rating: 6.7 (7,406 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 ↑ +1.0 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Streaming (US): Hulu · Netflix
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2026)

7.70 avg 13 episodes 6.7 → 8.0 43 min avg

Slow burn

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Docked	6.7	785
2	Bean There Done That	7.4	499
3	Take Me Out of the Ballgame	7.4	449
4	All the World's Ablaze	7.5	424
5	Hello Darkness, My Port Wenn	7.7	404
6	Eyewitness Blues	7.6	394
7	There Might Be Blood	7.8	363
8	The Bogfather	7.8	353
9	Doc Martin	8.2	429
10	Port Wenn-ings and a Funeral	8.2	343
11	Mind Your Own Buboes	8.0	307
12	A Tale of Two Sister Cities	7.8	287
13	Norway No How	8.0	306