There were several issues involving rather painful events in the lives of the Port Wenn populace. A man shows up at the B & B. He is there to scatter his father's ashes, but when Ruth realizes his last name, it sets things in motion. This man is also very ill. Cut to another guy who runs the only pub in town. He is suffering from some serious ailments which could be fatal. He ends up with Joe, moping around about his failed wedding and the loss of his true love, ignoring this poor guy. Then, we have a little girl who is acting irrationally. She is close mouthed and Martin must get involved. Louisa shows her child skills here. And Al tries out a blood pressure device and it is realized that his is off the chart. Martin is sent all over the village to deal with these things. I like the episodes where Martin has to use his trade.
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More signs that Louisa will one day quit work
planktonrules30 May 2019
Throughout so much of "Sons and Lovers" you get signs that Louisa is losing interest in her job and she just wants to stay home with her baby. But she cannot yet admit this to herself...but the writers are making it clear she's heading in that direction. Part of this involves a plot about an unhappy child at the school. The other plots are a patient with high blood pressure, a man with liver trouble who INSISTS he stopped drinking long ago, and a foreigner whose father apparently knew Doc Martin's aunt VERY well. Overall, not a bad episode at all...but also not a particularly distinctive one either. Worth seeing and engaging...as usual.
Another visitor has a crisis
nmottel19 March 2022
I continue streaming the series in 2022 and am getting tired of the formula writing. A visitor arrives in Portwenn and Martin does a heroic diagnosis and saves the day. This time it is the son of a former lover of Ruth's. Too much Ruth for my taste episode after episoe and difficult to believe that Ruth ever showed a passion for anyone. I'd like to see more of the domestic side of Martin and Louisa. The brief glimpses are not enough and Louisa continues coming off as the snarly, inflexible partner while Martin continues making loving gestures. What's really going on behind the closed door of the Portwenn surgery?
Giving Aunt Ruth an Expository Love Affair
TheFearmakers24 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Aunt Ruth is so mummified it would be impossible to give her a love interest so a man shows up related to a man she used to have an affair with. This is supposed to flesh her character more but is somewhat hard to fathom being Ruth is a statue without a pulse.
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