What a daft effing idiot. Just too much stupid for it to be realistic. Otherwise a delightful series
6 Reviews
PC Penhale should be fired
eyefonefoures6 April 2020
A serious case of erotomania...and, as usual, PC Penhale is an idiot.
planktonrules8 May 2015
Warning: Spoilers
A strange and scruffy guy arrives in town in a very odd manner--he's unconscious and lying by the wharf! Martin helps the stranger and then this guy just disappears. However, he's not gone for long, as the guy has a bizarre secret--he's an erotomaniac! While this term sounds dirty, it refers to someone who is suffering from the delusion that someone is in love with him--someone who really has no idea who he is! In this case, the object of his sick delusion is Aunt Ruth of all people! Considering that PC Penhale is the law, it's up to Doc Martin to come to the rescue! Fortunately, Ruth is also amazingly clever when confronted by this odd-ball and together with Martin they still have their hands full!
This is a pretty good episode of "Doc Martin". However, it is unusual in that its main plot is much more pervasive than usual and the minor subplots are, as a result, much more minor. Well worth seeing.
This is a pretty good episode of "Doc Martin". However, it is unusual in that its main plot is much more pervasive than usual and the minor subplots are, as a result, much more minor. Well worth seeing.
New Guy in Town
Hitchcoc21 March 2018
The episode begins with a scruffy man, found on the beach by local mariners. They take him to Martin's office where it is obvious he has some serious symptoms. He is impulsive and a bit violent. Meanwhile, Louisa has problems accepting Michael, especially his OCD. A ten year old student who writes for the school newspaper blames Burt Large's restaurant for stomach pains, assuming it is food poisoning. Of course, Louisa, due to her not being able to leave her baby for long, doesn't edit the paper. It goes all over the village. Enter the aforementioned stranger from the beach and all kinds of things happen.
Goof
banksofthebann3 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Martin has a well established aversion to blood. When he was having lunch with Ruth, he acted nauseated at the sight of her rare steak. The juice of aged beef is not blood and Martin would know that. The red juice is myoglobin and is released from the muscle cells. There is a common misunderstanding that rare beef is bloody, and it would appear that the story writers fell into that mistake. A physician and surgeon with haemophobia would not react to myoglobin.
Not A Great Episode... Aunt Ruth is a Bore
TheFearmakers22 April 2020
One of the lesser episodes. Aunt Ruth, who resembles a mummy wearing a Moe wig, is being obsessed upon by a man, which is a stretch to begin with. Joan was so much better. Ruth is a ripoff of Martin's cold professional personality. And she takes a year to deliver her lines. She speaks like a RADA instructor. Anyhow... a filler episode. A shame because this show doesn't have many of those. On the plus side, the girl who wants to report Bert is cute and talented. Her story isn't centered on much, and in the old days it would have.
Worst episode
nmottel1 March 2022
Even if nobody else ever reads this review I must write it. First off, we are seeing much too much of Ruth and this episode made her the star. The premise was ridiculous, the polce officer more annoying than usual, and the dialogue plain dumb. And did the writers forget that Martin has won his battle over hemophobia? Suddenly Martic can't look at a rare steak never mind a test tube of blood? Since I have the luxury of streaming the show I am quickly seeing that the quality of writing went downhill along with the over-the-top acting.
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