After nearly six months off the air, FOX’s medical dramedy Best Medicine returned with a mermaid, Andrea Martin, and Dr. Martin Best (Josh Charles) finally sharing his blood phobia with the people of Port Wenn, Maine.
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And ahead of the show’s highly anticipated Season 2 premiere on September 20, Decider got a behind-the-scenes look at what else the series has in store during a set visit to Best Medicine‘s sound stages in the Hudson Valley region.
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On top of in-person interviews with cast members Josh Charles, Jason Veasey, Stephen Spinella, Cree, Didi Conn, EP Rodney Ferrell (Stick), and showrunner/EP Liz Tuccillo (Sex and the City, Divorce, Sweetbitter), Decider explored the seafaring town’s sets, visiting The Salty Breeze, Aunt Sarah’s house, Louisa’s principal’s office, a newly built guest room, an under-construction beauty salon, Martin’s doctor’s office and home, Charles’ trailer, and more.
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If you’re looking for an in-depth Best Medicine Season 2 preview, be sure to check out our full set visit write-up.
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And if you want to dive even deeper into noteworthy interview tidbits and exciting set observations, here are 17 behind-the-scenes secrets we learned from our trip to the Best Medicine sets.
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It’s All About The Details
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If there’s one thing I’m going to do on a set visit, it’s peek in a fridge, and I can officially report that Aunt Sarah takes the award for Best Fridge Interior of Best Medicine Season 2, with a bunch of apples and two bottles of wine inside.
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Martin’s fridge revealed a love of eggs, fruit, and olives.
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And the award for Best Fridge Exterior goes to Greg and George.
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Real photos of the actors and charming personal touches are hanging on the fridge in The Salty Breeze’s kitchen, on the walls inside the restaurant, and throughout each individual set we visited.
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Cabinets and junk drawers are filled!
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Graduate certificates are framed!
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Pairs of reading glasses are stashed throughout Aunt Sarah’s house, while a stack of handwritten mail sits by her door.
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And two new Season 2 locations — the Salty Breeze guest room and a beauty salon — were in the process of being built to take Best Medicine‘s set design to the next level in Season 2.
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Here’s What The Salty Breeze Is Serving Up
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Speaking of details, we know about the famous lobster rolls, but if you’ve ever wondered what else The Salty Breeze is serving up, we finally got eyes on the menus.
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If you’re still in line for Martin and Louisa endgame, stay in line!
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Sure, Season 2 opens with Martin and Eden still together, and we know that Louisa will have “sparks” with an upcoming guest star (more on this below), but Charles told Decider, “Obviously, Martin has feelings for Louisa that he’s not always fully conscious of all the time, or he’s trying not to be,” and Best Medicine‘s EPs agree.
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“No matter what happens, no matter if she gets another love interest, I don’t think any of us have to worry that there’s still something there,” Ferrell told Decider.
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“She’s patient with him, and listens, and doesn’t judge him.
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She’s actually okay with who he is.
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And I think that’s the kind of person he needs.
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Eden wants results.
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So I think Louisa services something for him that he actually needs.”
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“There might be another love triangle that Louisa is involved with, because she can’t just be sitting around pining for Martin for a whole other season,” Tuccillo said.
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“But I think Louisa is the love of his life, and everything that he does besides that is just not right.
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He’s so damaged, it’s going to be a hard road to get them together.
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But they really are meant to be together.”
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Didi Conn Wants A Love Interest
Speaking of love, after Geneva’s husband cheated on her with her sister, it’s high time she finds love again.
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Don’t you think?!
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Didi Conn sure does!
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“Tell the writers!” she urged during our Season 2 chat.
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“Maybe Geneva and Aunt Sarah, we go do a dating service.
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Tuccillo told Decider that in the beginning of the season, Aunt Sarah will be more focused on worrying about Martin, but “hopefully the last half she’s going to realize that it’s time for her to start thinking about love as well.”
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We’re officially adding “Geneva and Aunt Sara love interests” to our Best Medicine wish lists, but in the meantime, Conn is perfectly content sharing scenes with her “long-lost sister” Annie Potts.
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“Annie and I have known each other kind of parallel, by living in LA, having similar friends, hearing about each other’s work…
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We belong to a mutual admiration society, my Annie and me.”
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Best Medicine‘s Stars Aren’t Begging For Karaoke Scenes
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While Josh Segarra crushes karaoke again in Season 2 and several fresh faces grab the mic, not everyone on the Best Medicine cast is a real-life karaoke fan.
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“Cree’s karaoke song, if she must — which she tries to avoid generally — is probably ‘Bust a Move.’
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…and 109 more, not listed.
The Aporia
