Driving by his deep will of beginning a new beginning and start after being blamed for the death of a patient, Hank Lawson, a young successful doctor, who struggles against a mistake that turns upside down his life but his brother helps him in beginning as a doctor for the elite and rich families in Hampton, where he struggles against helping the poor or earning money.
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.
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.
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.
