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In this delightful fish-out-of-water series, BAFTA-winner Martin
Clunes (Shakespeare in Love) plays Martin Ellingham, a rude,
self-centered doctor with a crippling phobia of blood. Formerly a
hot London surgeon, he relocates to the idyllic seaside
village of his youth and immediately offends everyone in town. He
eventually earns the grudging respect of the local citizens, but
what he really wants are the affections of Louisa Glasson
(Caroline Catz, Murder in Suburbia), a beautiful schoolteacher.
The second series sees the return of Louisas former beau, a
development that makes the good doctor even crankier. Also
starring Ian McNeice (Dune) and Stephanie Cole (Waiting for God).
Starring Ian McNeice, Martin Clunes, Stephanie Cole, Caroline
Katz Special Features: 3-Disc Set Region [unknown] Box Set Screen
Format Note: Widescreen 16:9 Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo -
English Subtitles - English - SDH Text/Photo Galleries: Films
Runtime: 464 Minutes.
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Throughout the eight episodes comprising the second series of
Doc Martin, the cold, severe Doctor Martin Ellingham (Martin
Clunes) may not get too much friendlier but he does reveal, in
the oddest ways, his affinities for people he truly cares about.
As a man who, in the first series, was kicked out of London back
to his hometown, Portwenn, a remote Cornish fishing village, Doc
Martin is set-up as a bitter medicine man who cures with his
brain instead of his heart. In the first episode, "Old Dogs,"
Martin's confidence is undermined by two cases he solves
incorrectly. First, his mother's friend, Mrs. Steel (Margaret
Tyzack), grows senile while Martin believes she is fine with
tragic results. Weirder is the tale of fisherman Eddie, who
continually comes to Martin's office with cuts, s, and
worse. While Martin searches for clues in this episode as well as
in the subsequent few, the gripping medical mysteries are
leavened by humor introduced through petty town gossip. Whether
in line at the grocery, or walking to work, Martin is accosted by
curious townsfolk who probe him and seek his advice, to his
chagrin. The show illustrates small-town life, in the tradition
of American classics Northern Exposure and Twin Peaks, and in
fact shares some of its more bizarre plots with Lynch's.
In this second series, other characters become central to the
community's movement, and the quiet, friendly demeanors of others
offset Martin's gruffness. "In Loco" focuses on the local primary
school, where Martin's crush, the beautiful brunette, Louisa
Glasson (Caroline Catz), prepares to interview for a headmaster
position while an outbreak of an infectious disease spreads like
wildfire through the student population. Teenager Peter (Curtis
O'Brien), whose mother burns herself frying fish in the fish 'n'
chips shop, attaches himself to Martin as a stand-in her
figure. More, the grungy dog pawing his way into Martin's house
is the carrier of this dread illness. Throughout the series, one
sees Martin attempting to connect to women, children, and
animals, with minimal success, minus a few miracles. His jovial
receptionist, Pauline Lamb (Katherine Parkinson), shakes her head
and occasionally cracks a joke at his attempts. In "Erotomania,"
Martin even tries to bond with Constable Mark Mylow
(Stewart Wright), who suffers when he discovers that his fiancé,
Julie Mitchell (Angeline Ball), is not who she cls to be.
Ultimately, Doc Martin is about the dramas of small-town ,
the ways people connect, but more interestingly, the ways people
isolate to maintain semblances of privacy in places where there
is little. --Trinie Dalton