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Title: Royal Pains
Post by: Nerf on June 12, 2009, 02:07:41 AM
New USA series, and they hit it out of the park.  Young idealistic doctor saves an inner-city youth's life while simultaneously ignoring the routine operation on a billionaire hospital trustee.  Things go horribly wrong, trustee dies, and doctor is blacklisted by every hospital..everywhere apparently.

His brother takes him on a weekend trip to the Hamptons where he suddenly finds himself a "concierge doctor" for the rich, living in a guest house that would make you cry of a billionaire whose castle would make baby jesus cry.

Awesome fucking show, I was ecstatic that Burn Notice was back, and Royal Pains following it is just icing on the cake.  Fuck yeah USA, thanks for making Thursdays so awesome.

Edit: It looks like they might be trying to go House with it, which would be a huge mistake, they need to keep it funny and zany, not mystery illness of the week.


Title: Re: Royal Pains
Post by: Signe on June 12, 2009, 07:22:00 AM
Gee.  I just watched an episode of this show and I thought it was terrible.  Especially the brother who acts like a 16 year old idiot and the two 16 year old idiots who act like 30 year old wine snobs.  And the acting is mostly just awful.  I don't get what's good about this show.


Title: Re: Royal Pains
Post by: Brogarn on June 12, 2009, 07:32:34 AM
My wife and I watched the pilot and thought it was interesting enough to throw on the DVR. We haven't watched last night's show yet.


Title: Re: Royal Pains
Post by: Chimpy on June 20, 2009, 08:52:46 AM
I liked the Pilot episode. Muddled through the second episode, could not even get halfway through the third.

The increasing focus on the brother's little side schtick was not there, I could probably watch the show. As it stands I don't think I am even going to bother finishing watching the second episode or watching any new ones that come out.


Title: Re: Royal Pains
Post by: Brogarn on June 22, 2009, 07:18:02 AM
Characters welcome on USA, but Royal Pains brought a bland forgettable one. Unfortunate. The pilot had potential.