Season 1
22 episodes
43 min. per episode
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A New York doctor navigates Southern charm and small-town secrets, redefining her career and discovering unexpected love in Bluebell.
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Valedictorian at New York Medical School, surgeon's daughter Zoe Hart declines an offer to join obscure Alabama Gulf town Bluebell's senior doctor Harley Wilkes to join his country practice, but he keeps sending postcards. When she's told to get a year of practice experience to develop patience in order to be admitted to surgical training, she finally accepts, to her mother Candice Hart's distress. Meanwhile, Harley has died, but he has named her heir to his half of the practice, local Dr. Brick Breeland wanted to continue alone. Zoe hesitates, appreciating helpful gentleman local lawyer George Tucker and ex-national sports hero Lavon Hayes, now the mayor, but starting badly with womanizing estate caretaker Wade Kinsella and misled by her first patient, who faked an eye test before running over George, but an unwanted pregnancy proves decisive.
Hoping it might help the residents of Bluebell accept her as one of their own, Zoe Hart agrees to join Mayor Lavon Hayes on his float during the Founder's Day Parade; unfortunately, accidentally crashing the float doesn't exactly help Zoe win over Lemon Breeland and the residents of Bluebell. To make matters worse, the town's golden boy, George Tucker, informs Zoe that contractually she needs to bring in 30% of the business or Dr. Brick Breeland has the option to buy out her half of the medical practice.
Eager to "steal" a snake-bitten young patient from Brick, Zoe gets Wade to drive her to the site to identify the species, but gets bitten by the copperhead herself while Brick treats the child. Wade openly laughs and other locals smile or look down when Zoe decides to enter the annual gumbo-cooking contest--with no culinary experience. The New York "secret weapon" she counted on to cheat falls prey to the mayor's "domestic" alligator and she hurts a hand while cleaning shrimp, but George goes behind his fiancée's back to help her shop for ingredients, but they're called away to farmer Oscar Balderrama, whose limb is caught under a tipped-over field machine. To save the patient, who can't be moved safely, they must call Brick to operate with her expert instructions. He takes sole credit afterwards, yet rewards her.
Zoe stubbornly refuses to give in to Bluebell's tradition that during a heat wave, like now, all non-criminal inhibitions are suspended. Still, shirtless men and Wade's sensual dive soon get her doubting, ultimately to give in. Against George's wise advice to go for informal, his fiancée Lemon attempts to impress his visiting parents with a dinner, but Mother Tucker incessantly spits implied criticism, while Brick and Father Tucker bicker endlessly about sports, rooting for rival teams.
Zoe discovers something shocking about the local minister and his wife, causing quite a stir among the residents of Bluebell. Lemon is determined to find the funds to renovate the town's historic bridge that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, but first she is put in the difficult position of needing to convince Lavon to choose her proposal over so many other worthwhile submissions.
New Yorker and new doctor Zoe Hart accepts an offer from a stranger, Dr. Harley Wilkes, to work in his medical practice in Bluebell, Alabama. She arrives to find that he has died and left half the practice to her in his will.