After last night’s “Royal Pains” season 5 episode, it is pretty easy to draw one conclusion about Hank Lawson: The guy’s in trouble. His addition to prescription medication has been finally outed, and this is a major problem when it comes to his future. If he continues to treat patients while medicated, there are all […]
For a good percentage of Wednesday night’s “Royal Pains” episode, we almost felt like we were watching a secret chapter in the “Vacation” series, with Evan Lawson starring as the new Clark Griswold stumbling his way through Italy. We had all of the classic “bad American tourist” tropes: Not understanding foreign languages properly, being oblivious […]
Could Hank Lawson be well on his way now to ruining his medical career? In just one small move on next week’s “Royal Pains” episode “Game of Phones,” he is going to land himself in an incredible amount of trouble in a short amount of time, and all thanks to his own inability to let […]
Over the past few weeks, “Royal Pains” season 5 has almost felt as though they were skating the issue when it comes to something that we have seen to be very important to the show, and also extremely important to Hank’s life: His pill addiction. It’s slowly manifested itself, and this week, someone was finally […]
While “Royal Pains” is by and large a breezy summer show, there has been something simmering underneath the surface for the past few weeks that is a genuine cause for concern for anyone and everyone affiliated with HankMed: What is going on when it comes to Hank’s pill problems. At the beginning of this season, […]
It was definitely interesting to watch Wednesday night’s “Royal Pains” episode, for one main reason: While in theory it seemed like the challenge for Hank was going to be trying to keep Boris’ cousin at bay, the story ended up being almost as much just about trying to keep Evan from wrecking everything. The entire […]
Evan R. Lawson is good at some things, despite the goofy presence that he has at times on “Royal Pains”: He’s extremely ambitious, capable of influencing others, and he also has a knack for running a business and doing some of the stuff that Hank doesn’t want to do. However, crisis management is not one […]
Last week on “Royal Pains,” we like to think that we saw some pretty substantial progress when it comes to a few of the stories that we have been following on the show all season long. Hank was getting closer to allowing the hospital to be the new home of the business, Evan pressed along […]
While we still believe that Wednesday night’s “Royal Pains” episode has one of the more hilarious names out there in “Chock Full O’ Nuts,” what we have today are some details that stretch beyond what you will be seeing tonight, and into the next few weeks. The course of the season is starting to take […]
At the end of Wednesday night’s “Royal Pains” episode, Hank decided that for the future of HankMed, the best thing would be to get all of the parties in a room in an effort to talk things out. For the first time ever, he seemed somewhat understanding of the feeling that he could not continue […]
