Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

SnoopyStyle New York ER doctor Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) loses a wealthy hospital trustee when he chooses to save a young teen instead. He is fired and his life spirals downward. His fiancé leaves him. His brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) takes him to a Hampton party hosted by the mysterious Boris (Campbell Scott) where he saves a model from an overdose. Boris offers him a job as his doctor and a place to stay. Evan convinces him to start a concierge doctor service in the Hamptons. They hire assistant Divya Katdare (Reshma Shetty). Jill Casey (Jill Flint) is the administrator of the local hospital and becomes Hank's intermittent romantic interest for the first 4 seasons. Paige Collins (Brooke D'Orsay) is the daughter of a wealthy military politician who becomes Evan's romantic interest. Eddie R. Lawson (Henry Winkler) is the brothers' small-time crook father. Jeremiah Sacani (Ben Shenkman) joins the practice in the later seasons.This is one of USA network's sunny dramas. It's not that serious and the cast is a likable charming group. Feuerstein and Costanzo have a great brotherly relationship. It's sunshine and sunglasses. The medical MacGyvering is a bit silly but it actually adds to the light charms of the show. This is not anything ground-breaking or edgy. It's not a prestige show. It's more of a meat and potatoes network show.

harbeau On one hand, this is actually quite an engaging sitcom, about a doctor (not a surgeon as was reported in the primary review, but an ER doctor, but who cares?) who is to medicine what MacGyver was to ...everything else in the 1980s. (The joke was MacGyver could make a nuclear weapon out of chewing gum (with the foil wrapper! The wrapper was always important.) and a pineapple. Well, Hank is the same for medicine, coming up with incredible (and incredibly silly) miracle cures to the most bizarre medical maladies to ever roll of the tongue in Latin.On a more serious note, Hank is sometimes a pill-pushing drug mule (he regularly gives of a litany of medicines that will somehow cure these incurable conditions. Amazingly, some of the names of these medications come up again and again. For example, listen for Prednisone (actually a synthetic steroid used for allergies, rheumatic conditions and leukaemia) which he uses for a great many things other than those. He directs all of his patients into as many costly, unnecessary procedures as possible (I think every single patient Hank has ever had has needed a C-T (a much more expensive type of X-Ray), an MRI or both (because he has his own portable MRI. They are only $25-40,000 per MONTH). He alternates on different seasons as being an altruistic medicine man and a money-grubbing shyster (which begs the question: As I can't imagine his practice would do anything less than make money hand over fist (concierge doctoring to the ultra riche), how does he keep being on the verge of broke? Perhaps he needs to sell that portable MRI machine? Anyway, after Season 5 he gives in to the corporate overlords (But only the nicest of overlords? Because we know that US hospitals and HMOs really only have the best interests of their patients at heart. (Sorry. Sarcasm got away from me there :) Anyway, I haven't finished Season 5 yet, because it left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe they don't go through with it, because I would think that as soon as it becomes a corporation, then all the joy of the series would bleed out of it.One final note about cast: Hank is enjoyable, Divya is incredible, Evan is ...miscast? and Jill is missed (Hank seems to lose part of his character without her around? *sigh* Maybe he finds another love later? Wait, don't tell me!)

loueymc I absolutely adore this TV show and since I started watching it around three weeks ago....have not been able to put it down!! I love everything about it and wouldn't change a thing, it has comedy, drama, romance, thrilling parts, mystery when it comes to resolving illnesses etc. I think my favorite character, if I had to pick one, would be Paulo Costanzo's character Evan, he makes me laugh when I haven't even got the energy to, he's so sarcastically funny. The relationship between Mark Feuerstein and Paulo Costanzo's characters is pretty much what you would see in real life siblings, it's very real....they wind each other up, have tiny little spats constantly, one hates letting the other down, when they have a big fall out, find a way to get passed it....and when one needs the other, they're really there for each other. I also love that they accepted Reshma Shetty's character Divya into their lives not only as a colleague, but as part of their family. When we were first introduced to Brooke D'Orsay's character Paige, I wasn't sure I was going to like her, as she firstly came across as quite the Princess...but as episodes went along, I grew quite attached to her as well...she really is the yin to Paulo Costanzo's character Evan's yang, they definitely chose well there. Also, my second favorite character would have to be Henry Winkler as Eddie R. Lawson, as the Father of the two main character's, his character is just hilarious and as Brooke D'Orsay's character once quoted in the actual show 'lovable' he really is. He manages to get himself into little messes, but it's so much fun watching him try to get out of them, his heart always does seem to be in the right place. I even like the wooden character of Jeremiah Sacani, played very well by Ben Shenkman.I honestly cannot say anything bad about this show....and I really am hooked!

Moses Bernard Royal Pain has been an entertaining spin on the common doctor/medical/hospital stories that you commonly get on TV shows. Mark Feuerstein's role as Hank is well executed, charming, witty and empathetic. Reshma Shetty's role as Divya delivered a nice mix of logic, common sense and more empathy to a character that I would describe as the motherly figure within the HankMed group. But with everything that is lush and green there's always something, or someone, they lets the side down. Where Hank comes across as a smart doctor, who just wants to do what he loves doing, his brother Evan, played by Paulo Costanzo, is the most annoying character I've come across on any program I've watched... His ability to screw up the simplest of things, or to selfishly take advantage of other peoples wealth/status, has made me pause episodes on numerous occasions. His character, or execution of said role, has given me reason to ponder why on earth I'm watching the program in the first place?! Then there's the role of Eddie R, played by Henry Winkler. The less I say about the character the better. Henry Winkler has always been a great actor, with an ability to shift from comedic to semi serious roles with ease. But writers of this show have missed a trick by making Evan and Henry overly money hungry buffoons!!!The show is very very entertaining.. And my score would have been two, maybe three, points higher were it not for the buffoonery of Evan and Eddie. Worth a watch, just brace yourself for a twist of nonsense every now and then!!