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Review: 'Royal Pains'

TELEVISION REVIEW

Mark Feuerstein is given a straitjacketed role as a skilled city doctor relocated to the snooty Hamptons, but the supporting cast is colorful and the setting is a summer vacation.

June 04, 2009|ROBERT LLOYD, TELEVISION CRITIC

Feuerstein ("Conrad Bloom," "Good Morning, Miami" and a lot else) plays another of the put-upon menschen for which casting directors like him. There are some problems: Except for his scenes as a depressed couch potato, Hank is all super skills and high-mindedness, which makes him in most respects the least interesting character here.

The best stuff happens around him: As his comical brother, Costanzo makes a shallower but more consistent part quite charming. And Ezra Miller, as a super-rich latchkey teen abandoned by his father in a modernist architectural showplace, gives a lesson in intelligent underplaying; by relaxing into his part, he makes it real.


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The Hamptons themselves, and the other bits of Long Island that stand in for them here, help sell the show. The sunny shore, the grasses, the seabirds -- it's a vacation just looking at them.

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robert.lloyd@latimes.com

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'Royal Pains'

Where: USA

When: 10 tonight

Rating: Not rated

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