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455566, Royal Pains Season One
Posted by JungleSouljah, Fri Jun-05-09 03:33 PM
Since we seem to have a developing lovefest with the shows on USA (Monk, Psych, In Plain Sight, Burn Notice) I figure this show might develop a small following.

The first episode was a bit long and all over the place, but I liked the comedy aspect. The brother is gold; the "product of Jesus and Patrick Dempsey" line was brilliant. The scene trying to get into Boris' party was funny as hell. They've got some solid dialogue writers. The physicians assistant seems like she could be an excellent comedic foil also. It has a bit of a Psych feel to it, but without the instant chemistry of Shawn and Gus.

I have some medical and especially ER gripes particularly in the manner in which he was fired but I won't get into that unless people really care.

I'll definitely keep watching. Anybody else catch it?
455642, it was dope...
Posted by Calico, Fri Jun-05-09 09:35 PM
this and Burn notice is a nice one two shot
455646, Its on the DVR, probably will watch it later tonight....
Posted by KCPlayer21, Fri Jun-05-09 09:40 PM
455658, good show.....just watched
Posted by LAbeathustla, Fri Jun-05-09 10:53 PM
the brother is hilarious...
455696, the brother is funny as hell
Posted by Ray_Snill, Sat Jun-06-09 08:59 AM
mental note: become a doctor!

the P.A. chick is hot and her accent makes my pants tight



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458938, RE: good show.....just watched
Posted by jalen05, Wed Jun-24-09 03:56 PM
Agreed, the brother's the best character on the show although I think he's gonna get kicked out of the estate soon...

next episode looks awesome too he wants to throw the main character a party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUPu_RXjL4
455792, i'm in for the season
Posted by lfresh, Sat Jun-06-09 07:54 PM
i was wondering how they were going to shoot the water
(for those not from NY it's brown folks)
i'm not a hamptons/NY beach fan because of this
sorry sidetracked a bit

anyways
it'll be fun summer tv i think
it seems he will be running from women
which is amusing i must say
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455825, Please get into your medical gripes more.....
Posted by KCPlayer21, Sat Jun-06-09 10:55 PM
cause I'm not a doctor, but he was killing me with all the McGuyver stunts he was pulling to save folks' lives.....
455898, Well let's start off with the opening 2 scenes
Posted by JungleSouljah, Sun Jun-07-09 04:23 PM
1) Emergency room doctors don't do cardiac caths. Ever. Under any circumstances. They're not trained for it. Ever.

2) He wouldn't need a cardiothoracic surgeon to help him fix either patient.

3) The poisoning and tox stuff was medically sound but not entirely realistic. You'd have to be exposed to a large amount of organophosphates to develop a SLUDGE syndrome. And get the fuck out at him not bringing her to a hospital. Good way to lose your license.

4) The kid with hemophilia who developed a hemothorax. That makes some sense, but you'd have to have a chest tube in to keep the blood draining from the pleural space. And I didn't see one. And he wouldn't begin clotting that quickly. Factor VIII doesn't work like that.

The most realistic thing was maybe him taking saline out of the breast implant. It seemed like a reasonable procedure.

It's mostly just nit-picky shit. Overall I was highly entertained and I might watch it again because I was multi-tasking when I watched on Thursday.
455931, ^^^^ likes to tell kids there's no Santa Claus
Posted by Ray_Snill, Sun Jun-07-09 07:38 PM
just kidding man



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456590, you know
Posted by lfresh, Thu Jun-11-09 11:38 AM
just ruin it for me
lol
not really
i still watch csi
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456032, Um in
Posted by BlakGirlSoul, Mon Jun-08-09 10:57 AM

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456058, Good show. Wondering what they are doing at USA...
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Mon Jun-08-09 12:52 PM
that they are not doing at NBC?

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456220, Making hit shows....
Posted by KCPlayer21, Mon Jun-08-09 10:48 PM
instead of recycling tired reality cliches and cutting an hour out of prime time to give Jay Leno his show back.....
456229, NBC=not bothering to develop shows and
Posted by SankofaII, Tue Jun-09-09 12:44 AM
letting Ben Silverman put on any show that comes out of his ass...which is total CRAP (ha ha joke! :))

USA Drama and Comedy Development: run by competent people who KNOW how to create quality shows that a) are well written b) very good c) know their audience (folk LOVE somewhat edgy light dramedies and stalwart law procedurals like Criminal Intent and d) mad an EFFORT to TEST these shows with ACTUAL viewers, etc...


that's the difference between NBC and USA
456592, and give them TIME to develop
Posted by lfresh, Thu Jun-11-09 11:40 AM
and build an audience
this whole yanking show off immediately instead of tweaking the show and actually seeing what works and doesn't
is bullshit
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456385, Its starting out slow IMO
Posted by EvenflowDDT, Wed Jun-10-09 10:16 AM
but I know it'll get better. I put it under 'watchable'.
458638, RE: Royal Pains Season One
Posted by bwood, Mon Jun-22-09 04:58 PM
Jus watched tha first 3 episodes on hulu. Very entertaining.
458733, I'm liking it so far, but I DO want you to get into how he was fired.
Posted by spades, Tue Jun-23-09 09:30 AM
PLEASE tell me that's no a realistic depiction.
458943, The P.A. is sexy as all hell....
Posted by MisterGrump, Wed Jun-24-09 04:06 PM
458972, ^^^ain't never lied
Posted by Rjcc, Wed Jun-24-09 06:33 PM

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
459123, ^ 4 2nite.
Posted by spades, Thu Jun-25-09 11:59 AM
459298, i missed last night's episode...i'll have to watch online.
Posted by ChuckFoPrez, Fri Jun-26-09 01:22 PM
i really like the series though...USA is putting out quality shows, for sure!
459728, RE: i missed last night's episode...i'll have to watch online.
Posted by jalen05, Mon Jun-29-09 05:07 PM
ya, full episodes are up on the usa official site:
http://www.usanetwork.com/series/royalpains/video/fullep/


This show's getting better and better with each episode, the last one was pretty good but I'm still wondering about what that shark was for. Something is really sketchy about Boris.
461636, Well, the inevitable happened...
Posted by ChuckFoPrez, Thu Jul-09-09 09:00 PM
sweet. she's fine! go hank!

his brother stay fucking shit up. hank was bout to be in her pussy and got cockblocked.
462884, i missed last night's episode...again. i'll have to watch online.
Posted by ChuckFoPrez, Fri Jul-17-09 09:24 AM
462923, be prepared for some bad news aout Divya
Posted by MisterGrump, Fri Jul-17-09 12:36 PM
463175, It's a fun show
Posted by JungleSouljah, Sun Jul-19-09 06:46 PM
But I have this feeling that it's going to get stale.

Between the MacGuyver medicine (which I'm sure works really well for the masses but falls a bit flat for me, especially when it's vastly wrong... maybe that's how CIA/NSA types feel when watching Burn Notice).

Jill is cool and all, but the actress is the weakest out of their main core and I don't see that working for the love interest on the show.

But I imagine it'll continue to be fun. I'm waiting for the inevitable Evan and Divya hook-up.
463229, I been saying this same thing......
Posted by KCPlayer21, Sun Jul-19-09 10:59 PM
I'm waiting for the
>inevitable Evan and Divya hook-up.

they have that same vibe that Max and Kyle did on Living Single.....