‘Royal Pains’ season 6, episode 4 review: The story of Secret Agent Hank

The joy about “Royal Pains” as a series is that it is continuously light and breezy. It’s a show that focuses on the fun first, and really everything else second.

It is really thanks to that we are able to overlook some of the show’s flaws, including that there are times when it feels like the series is spinning its wheels rather than getting us to any real conclusion. Tuesday night’s “Steaks on a Plane” was that episode, since it emphasized three of the weaker things that the show is doing right now.

1. Hank as secret agent – While we do enjoy Boris, we much prefer him around the Hamptons than traveling all around the world with Hank doing some various missions. The show does an admirable job creating foreign locales without moving the actors around much, but we have no real idea where this is even going at this point. At least last season there appeared to be more of a rhyme and reason to it.

2. Evan and Paige – Outside of the two of them fighting with each other, what else is there? We feel like the two not having a home of their own is something that we’ve seen before, and there are other opportunities to tell stories that are still interesting, and don’t involve them having children yet. The “Hunger Games” spoof at the start was pretty fun, though.

3. Jeremiah’s love story – We go back and forth on this. Watching Jeremiah try to romance anyone is to us very entertaining, especially when it is someone like a woman working at a bar who has nothing at all in common with him. Our concern is that this is basically him and Divya all over again, with him being the pursuer rather than the pursued. We’d love to see the tables turn for a change.

Here’s the thing: None of these stories are bad. It just doesn’t feel like the show is moving in any particular direction, and we’d like to see much more of that at this point in the series’ run. This is why “Steaks on a Plane,” despite the awesome title, is probably the weakest episode of “Royal Pains” so far this season. Grade: C+.

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