Royal Pains season 8 review

The end is here for “Royal Pains,” or at least the chapter of the show that we saw for eight seasons. Based on what happened tonight, the future is still very much bright for Hank and the rest of our main characters. As a whole, we do feel like every character got to a certain […]

Musical episodes are one of the hardest things out there to produce on TV, mostly because they require such a different energy and style than almost anything else that you are going to see a show do. They’re super-ambitious, technically-challenging, and immediately polarizing. There are some out there who are going to think of them […]

Tonight, “Royal Pains” entered what we would firmly consider its home stretch. There are two episodes to go after tonight, and through those, we have to hope that we’ll get some conclusion on some long-simmering stories. During this episode, we had what was probably the furthest thing from closure when it comes to the return […]

The 101st episode of “Royal Pains” aired on USA Wednesday night, and we would say for the most part that preparing for the future was the main theme. Each character did so in their own way, and they all managed to move forward by the end of the hour … albeit in very different ways. […]

Over the course of the past eight seasons, we’ve loved “Royal Pains.” It’s as a result of that the little things get us emotional, like Hank scrubbing in or seeing Evan give an inspiration speech about his past and what he’s overcome. It’s why we want to root for Jeremiah to find love with someone, […]

To think, we are now three episodes into the eighth season of “Royal Pains,” but at the same exact time, we’re not entirely sure that we are that much closer than we were previously to resolving the love life of one Hank Lawson. For example, on tonight’s episode everything was starting to look up for […]

Thanks to the extremely short episode orders for USA’s “Royal Pains,” we now face what is a very sad reality … but the reality still nonetheless: We are only six episodes away now from the end of the series. What’s left to accomplish? Quite a bit really, since it first and foremost now seems like […]

Tonight, “Royal Pains” returned to USA for the beginning of the end! There are seven episodes to go following the one that we had tonight, and we like to think that it set the tone, at least somewhat, for the series’ endgame. For Hank, for example, it was about working through some of his own […]