EPISODE
SEASON
Royal Pains - Season 1
Upon calling for treating the poor in a local hospital, Hank Lawson, a young courageous and successful doctor, whose life turns upside down when a patient died because of him, the thing that brings terrible for him, so he moves to Hampton, where he works for the elite and the rich, but when he is asked by a beautiful girl to work at a local hospital to treat the poor, everything changes.
2 March 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
30 April 1926, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
19 July 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 February 1974, Bohnam, Texas, USA
23 March 1972, Paris, France
30 September 1992, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
12 August 1952, Uccle, Belgium
September 28, 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
23 September 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
June 04, 2009
It seems safer to bet on the second and to remain grateful for the House reruns that are shown more or less continually on USA.
June 04, 2009
No one's ever going to say Royal Pains is a classic addition to the medical genre, but it certainly is zippy fun.
June 04, 2009
It's Gossip Girl as a medical procedural, which may not be a recipe for quality, but I'm a weak woman, and it works for me on a hot day.
June 04, 2009
Most USA shows are a little cheesy on the surface, but this one is also filled with cheese, the kind of cheese that frat boys eat late at night when they're drunk.
June 04, 2009
It's not a bad summer diversion.
June 04, 2009
Simply being quirky, however, only goes so far, so my preliminary diagnosis is that these Pains don't amount to much more than a second-degree Burn.
June 04, 2009
Though the show apes Burn Notice's beachside vibe, the new program is too predictable to make much of an impression.
June 04, 2009
The one-liners are broad, the plots preposterous. And yet it all works in a lighthearted-summer-fare kind of way, helped along with almost pornographic images of Hamptons wealth.
June 04, 2009
Instead of having goofy fun with all its eye candy, Royal Pains mostly wants to sit around drinking in the excesses of the uber-wealthy, with an occasional joke as an afterthought.
June 04, 2009
An amusing, enjoyable addition to basic cable.