Thanks to @gailcalled she got me hooked on Doc Martin. It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever watched, since the day I first looked at a television. I’m already watching all the episodes again. It’s about a grumpy, not very attractive doctor who comes to Port Wenn (actually Port Isaac, Cornwall England) after he has a traumatic episode during a surgery (he was a very successful surgeon in London) and develops a phobia and disgust of blood, to become the village doctor. He is an extremely talented doctor, but most of the townsfolk don’t like him and the feeling is likewise, he’s just very grumpy and anti-social. Despite all of this, because he is such an excellent doctor, he is able to diagnose things that other doctors would have failed to see. One such patient is the lovely school teacher, Louisa. At first he creeps her out, when is stares oddly at her on his initial flight into Port Wenn, on which Louisa is also returning home. The reason he is staring at her is because he thinks she has glaucoma. She is appalled at the the thought and doesn’t like the way he is staring at her. He suggests that she see her eye doctor when she returns home. Neither of them realize that they are both headed to Port Wenn, and that he will be her general practitioner. Turns out she does have glaucoma, for which she is treated and has to wear an eye patch. He happens to see her through the window of the school and realizes that it is her. Later on she comes to see him to apologize. She is smitten, he is smitten, but neither one of them has the nerve to say anything or act upon it. So the premise of the show is that this very unlikely couple goes on and on with a slow burning never-voiced-out-loud romance. Things start to heat up, but then grumpy Martin says something inadvertently unpleasant to spoil the mood. In the meantime (the audience is also falling for them and rooting for them, and it turns out that Martin Clunes is actually extremely attractive, only you can’t believe it yourself, but you will fall for him). Some of the other women in the town, also have an odd attraction to grumpy Martin. There is a whole supporting cast of quirky townspeople and plenty of emergencies, some of which do involve blood, with throws a monkey wrench into Martin’s plans to avoid blood. This show is hilarious, thoughtful, romantic, gorgeous and sweet. Best show ever.
Worst current show is Rules of Engagement.