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Best Medicine

2026 · 2 seasons

A cozy, gently comic small-town medical drama where a prickly outsider slowly thaws among eccentric locals.

Created by: Liz Tuccillo
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Josh Charles, Abigail Spencer, Josh Segarra

Tagline: Small town doctor. Big time issues.
Overview: 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.

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Created by: Liz Tuccillo
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Josh Charles, Abigail Spencer, Josh Segarra

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
healing
found family
trauma
Places: small town
countryside
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: procedural
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	1
Humour	6
Realism	6
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy, drama
Created by: Liz Tuccillo
Written by: Ria Tobaccowala, Matt Ward, Cindy Chupack, Scott Prendergast
Starring: Josh Charles, Abigail Spencer, Josh Segarra, Cree, Annie Potts, Stephen Spinella, Jason Veasey, Carter Shimp
Length: 2 seasons, 20 episodes, 42 min each
Network: FOX
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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