TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
TaryBiggBall
It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Walter Sloane
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Mzepess
Great show. The writing makes you fall in love with the characters. I watched 3 seasons nonstop on Netflix and never got bored. This has never happened. Mark is an amazing actor/director. The well written story lines are engaging and interesting. This show keeps you coming back for more. Also as a nurse I am impressed will the pain staking details and accuracy of the medical aspects. The acting is superb. I love the new faces added each episode. Lots of good actors on board this project. Not too much gore. Enough to make the scenes seem real. This show is tasteful and makes me want to visit the Hamptoms and become ill! Lol
pjpjpj
This is a very charming series unfortunately without much depth of plot or character development. Anyone stepping onto a ladder will inevitably fall and lapse into a seizure requiring complex emergency medical treatment. Once a character has been stabilized, they will subsequently be diagnosed with a rare disease and will eventually be cured after suffering numerous heart attacks, more seizures, various bacterial infections and so on. Almost no one dies.The show is mostly ruined by Paulo Costanzo as "Evan". I don't know if Castanzo's mother is the producer, but the show gave him way to many scenes in exchange for his contribution to the series, which is a minus nothing. Constanzo "infects" mostly every scene with his distracting lack of talent. Costanzo's "humor" is a hybrid mix of Seinfeld and Pee-wee Herman, both of which Costanzo channels in virtually every scene. Costanzo's delivery and timing are predictably predictable and downright annoying. Just as Evan annoys the characters in the show, similarly he annoys the audience with his predictable, unfunny antics, stupid facial expressions, using too many words, and childish Pee-wee manic behavior.Here is my prescription. To enjoy the show you need to edit out Evan. When you see Evan entering a scene in one of his little pastel suits, and silly hat du jour, together with his little, puffy pee-we pout -- quickly FAST FORWARD through the entire scene until he is gone. Trust me, you will have missed nothing.
jan2547 ...
I've began to watch this show because i liked the concept. A doctor who makes house calls in The Hamptons. I liked it from the beginning and et has a good story. On the other hand it's just not my kind of thing but it's just interesting enough to keep my attention. Mark Feuerstein and Paulo Costanzo are a very good acting duo and the acting overall is very very good. So overall i have to say acting is very good and the story is just average => 6/10But the reason i like this show the most is just because the visualization of the show is incredible so great props to the cameramen. It's just the way they always make such beautiful pictures, wow just wow! It's very well directed and filmed like no other show i ever saw before. Just a joy to watch => 10/10 So if I count those two scores I get and 8/10 and that's a good score to project how good this show is. I don't say it's a must watch, but it's worth a try.
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!!
