History Series / RoyalPains

* ManipulativeBastard: [[DysfunctionJunction Despite what good friends they are, Hank learns Boris can very-well be this]]. If it's not an indirect one, Boris's legitimate answers or explanations are hardly ever the complete truth. Whenever Hank ends up getting involved in Boris's business, whether he wants to be or not, expect something deeper to be going on.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[DysfunctionJunction Despite what good friends they are, Hank learns Boris can very-well be this]]. If it's not an indirect one, Boris's legitimate answers or explanations are hardly ever the complete truth. Whenever Hank gets involved with Boris's business, expect something deeper to be going on. Hank always ends up getting caught in it.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[DysfunctionJunction Despite what good friends they are, Hank learns Boris can very-well be this]]. If it's not a vague one, Boris's legitimate answer or explanation are hardly ever the complete truth. Whenever Hank gets involved with Boris, expect something deeper to be going on. Though, Hank always ends getting caught up in it anyway.

** Things are [[spoiler: resolved and the two become friends. Marisa trusting Hank enough to disclose the pregnancy she's been keeping secret from Boris, and refuses to move into Shadow Pond without Hank there again. Hank is chosen to be their son's godfather]].

* ManipulativeBastard: [[DysfunctionJunction With their history]], despite what good friends they are, Hank knows Boris very-well can be this.
** While it may seem legitimate enough, whenever Hank gets involved with Boris, expect something deeper going on. The other times he keeps Hank out of his business, considering how he's still caught up in it anyway, Hank isn't too pleased with that either. He isn't wrong in saying, "with Boris, nothing's ever as simple as it seems" and "everything's a rabbit hole".

** Boris goes to ridiculous lengths to hide and/or find a cure for his condition, often alienating Hank, the one doctor who seems to thinks he can help him. Other times he keeps Hank out of his business for his own protection, but Hank isn't too pleased with that either (considering how he ends up getting involved anyway).

* ManipulativeBastard: [[DysfunctionJunction With their history]], despite what good friends they are, Hank knows Boris very-well can be this, that "with Boris, nothing's ever as simple as it seems" and "everything's a rabbit hole".

* ManipulativeBastard: [[DysfunctionJunction With their history]], despite what good friends they are, Hank very well knows Boris can be this with him, and that "with Boris, nothing's ever as simple as it seems" and "everything's a rabbit hole".

* ObliviousAdoption: [[spoiler: Paige had no clue she was adopted until her father had to clarify to the press that his secretary was arranging the adoption and [[MistakenForCheating he wasn't having an affair]]]].

** It's extremely clear watching the earlier seasons that they were setting up Divya and Evan to get together through the use of BelligerentSexualTension. However, Evan's unexpected chemistry with Paige killed that plots line. However it's brought back up in Season 5 when Paige starts to believe there might be something going on between them, only for Divya to flat out state she never had feelings for Evan above friends.
** It's never explained how people reacted to [[spoiler: the previously declared dead Boris suddenly coming back to life.]]

** Boris goes to ridiculous lengths to hide and/or find a cure for his condition, often alienating Hank, the one doctor who seems to thinks he can help him.

** Subverted in the way Hank's plotline progresses. It seems ridiculous how a simple ER doctor who was fired by the hospital board for letting a billionaire trustee die can end up [[spoiler: involved in so much political intrigue, sitting ''on'' a hospital administration, and announcing that he's the physician of the patient zero of a world-changing clinical trial, who is also his incredibly wealthy boss]]. But that's more related to the reclusive Boris [[spoiler: simply becoming less private about his life and affairs]].

* FriendsRentControl: Played with. The main characters are allowed to use Boris' guesthouse (initially rent-free but later Hank insists on paying some rent) due to his gratitude towards Hank. [[spoiler: After Boris' faked death, Dimitri allows Evan and Paige the use of the main house... for free.]]

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Dimitry was loyal to Boris all along, and was just pretending to have killed him to find out who was trying to assassinate Boris.]]

%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Jack]] and [[spoiler: Dimitry]]

* OverlyLongName: Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz.

* YoyoPlotPoint: Hank and Jill's relationship is nearly reached this point, until it was resolved in the Season 1 finale. [[spoiler:They broke up, and have since shown interest in other people.]]

* ExactWords: Divya gets Even to help her by telling him that she will tell him everything she knows about Boris. After it is all done, she tells him that Boris is a "very private person", and that is it. She told him everything she '''knew''' about Boris.

** After the [[spoiler: attempt on his life using thallium in his pool, Hank suggests Boris' genetic disease might not even be genetic, but caused by a mutation that happens due to radiation poisoning. It's dropped after seeing his mentally ill cousin Milos, Boris reasons Milos wouldn't be poisoning himself to dementia.]]

** After [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech having a fight]] with her father due to him [[spoiler: trying to completely wipe out all traces of his wife's existence from his life and refusing to talk to her even though she was willing to reconcile, Divya came back to find her father face down in the pool. He fell in from the 2nd floor balcony trying to spray a bees nest and had an allergic reaction.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Boris' measures to protect his privacy seem ridiculous, until the third season where it's revealed that [[spoiler: members of his massive ancient noble family have been feuding with each other for centuries, and Boris is now a prime target since he's just had a son who can inherit his fortune and title. Oh, and the mysterious "illness" that's been killing off the men in his family for generations? May not have been an illness at all. Someone's been poisoning him.]]

* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Eddie and Even have an R as their middle name with several people asking what it stands for. According to Hank it is just an R and doesn't mean anything. [[spoiler: It is later revealed to mean Ross, Eddie's original last name.]]

Each episode is about Hank making house calls and dealing with the eccentricities of this obscenely rich community. As with other USA shows with a strong episodic premise, around 2012, the show has occasionally moved away from pure PatientOfTheWeek storylines and focused on more overarching drama and story in order to develop the characters and introduce future conflicts and plots while wrapping up older ones.

%%* ChickMagnet: Both Hank and Evan have their moments.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In the second season two episode, Evan keeps using "subliminal" and Hank even tells him he should look it up.

* AbsenteeActor: Subverted with Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo and Reshma Shetty, who appear in all 104 episodes and stay main cast members throughout the series.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Divya, occasionally.

** Even is the Red Oni to Hank's Blue Oni. There is several times where they are wearing a red shirt and blue shirt.

* FemaleGaze: In 2x03, Emily Peck [[spoiler: Boris' new concierge doctor]] uses [[WatchingTheReflectionUndress her rear-view mirror]] to check out Hank's butt as he jogs away.
%%* FemaleMisogynist: Emily Peck accuses Divya.

** The members of [=HankMed=] [[WeHelpTheHelpless go out of their way to those in need]] alongside catering to the rich. Dr. Emily Peck has shown herself to be more concerned with "Hollywood style" medicine while avoiding situations that could get her sued.

* WealthyPhilanthropist: The premiere has the subverted version of a rich family that donates to charity, but in fact uses their money to pull the strings. Hank prioritizes a dying young kid over a wealthy man who was in stable condition. The rich man has unforeseen complications and dies. The dead man's family turn out to be the hospital's biggest donors and they use this to force the hospital to fire Hank, even though medically, he did nothing wrong. Since they also donate money to all the major hospitals in New York, Hank is blacklisted from working as a hospital doctor. They also try to have his medical license revoked if he doesn't take full responsibility for the wealthy man's death.
* WeHelpTheHelpless: In addition to making house calls for the wealthty, Hank regularly treats the town's lower class residents at no cost. This is often because these people can't afford a private doctor under regular circumstances, and because they must dig through a mile of red tape to get treatment at the local hospital.

''Royal Pains'' is a summer series airing on Creator/USANetwork about medical genius Hank Lawson (played by Creator/MarkFeuerstein) who makes a decision triaging "some kid off the street" and saving him over a billionaire trustee, whom he had declared stable and subsequently died. The resulting legal backlash makes him lose pretty much everything he has, including his fiancée due to the emotional difficulties, and is blacklisted from any medical position even remotely worth his skills.

His brother Evan Lawson takes it upon himself to cheer his brother up by organizing a trip to crash a South Hampton party, which would be a party God would be at "If he could get in." By a twist of fate, Hank is around when a party attendant has an allergy attack and proves himself better able to handle these on-the-spot medical emergencies than the local concierge doctor.

Hank receives an offer to replace the older concierge doctor by the enigmatic German multi-billionaire [[OverlyLongName Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz]], but he has some reservations about taking such a position because it caters exclusively to the wealthy (many of whom are very self-indulgent and self-absorbed). After discussing the issue with a newfound friend, the Hampton Heritage Hospital administrator Jill Casey, Hank takes up the job. Evan helps manage the finances of "Hank Med", and Physician Assistant Divya Katdare is his very savvy assistant.

* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: Dieter poisoned Boris.]]

* ChickMagnet: Both Hank and Evan have their moments.

** In a 2012 crossover commercial, [[Series/WhiteCollar Neal]] praises Hank's set up as consignment doctor but wonders how he can keep up being a fake doctor. Hank dully points out it's probably a talent he [[DeadpanSnarker picked up during all those years of medical school]]. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Neal praises his willingness to go for that long of a con]].

* FemaleGaze: In 2x03, Emily Peck [[spoiler: Boris' new concierge doctor]] uses her rear-view mirror to check out Hank's butt as he jogs away.
* FemaleMisogynist: Emily Peck accuses Divya.

* GiveGeeksAChance: In the third season episode "Ta Da..." we meet Magic Andy, a professional stage magician played by character actor Tony Hale (who has made a career of playing nerds and geeks like Buster Bluth in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' and Emmett Milbarge in ''Series/{{Chuck}}''). While Magic Andy bemoans the fact that girls aren't interested in him at all, by the end of the episode, he's started a relationship with Betty, who works as a waiter for a caterer who handles the same sort of parties Andy gets hired to perform at. She's been watching Andy's show's for a while, and thinks he's an amazing performer. And handsome. And cute.

* HonorBeforeReason: Divya feels honor bound to go through with an ArrangedMarriage. When she finally cancels the wedding she feels honor bound to repay her ex-fiance's family the money they spent on the engagement. She works a second job to raise the money which leaves her exhausted. Her insistence to keep this secret from Hank directly leads to her screwing up and endangering the life of a patient.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Jack]] and [[spoiler: Dimitry]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Divya, occasionally.

* NonIdleRich: Divya.

* PaintingTheMedium: One episode involved a woman who only spoke Italian, with her words subtitled. She didn't understand when Divya asked her to roll up her left sleeve. Evan tries to explain, and his poor Italian is accurately conveyed by [[FunWithSubtitles his subtitles' bad grammar and whimsical font]]. When the woman he's talking to starts babbling, the subtitles eventually give up and go "Etc... Etc.... Etc..."

* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe, Evan calls Jill and Hank "Jank".
* PrettyBoy: Tucker.
* PrettyInMink: Ms. Newberg in the pilot.

** Emma's constant mention of AutoTrader is painfully obvious. Made worse when Evan and Paige give a stilted reaction to her bringing it up while confessing that she lied to them...again.

--> Eddie: Remember that Halloween, we all dressed as our favorite monsters?
--> Hank: Yeah, you were Frankenstein, Mom was his bride, I was the wolfman, and Evan was a NinjaZombiePirateRobot.
* SiblingTeam : Hank and Evan

* TheRival: Dr. Emily Peck, Hank's "temporary replacement", is now made into this. And as of "The Hankover", they now have FoeYay. More specifically, they slept together.

* TakeThat: In the pilot when the on-call doctor tries to treat a girl at the party and automatically assumes it's drugs. Hank points out some important symptoms that he missed because of his assumption. A cynical doctor who assumes the worst in everyone? Hmmm....

* CatapultNightmare: Jill is being afflicted nightmares that jolt her awake in bed after her "accident".

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Lawsons, until "Keeping the Faith", when it becomes more or less explicit. They aren't the least bit observant, though. Eddie recommending Evan try a black ham and brie sandwich [[note]] In Jewish cuisine, not only are meat and dairy product supposed to be completely separate, pork products themselves are prohibited[[/note]] do they keep kosher either.

Hank receives an offer to replace the older concierge doctor by the enigmatic German multi-billionaire [[OverlyLongName Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz]], but he has some reservations about taking such a position because it cateurs exclusively to the wealthy (many of whom are very self-indulgent and self-absorbed). After discussing the issue with a newfound friend, the Hampton Heritage Hospital administrator Jill Casey, Hank takes up the job. Evan helps manage the finances of "Hank Med", and Physician Assistant Divya Katdare is his very savvy assistant.

* InstantBirthJustAddWater: Played with in [[spoiler: Marisa's]] case.[[spoiler: Marisa]] went to Divya in order to ease her worries of her contractions but hadn't realized she had already gone into labor and about ready to start giving birth right on the patio. An inconvenient spot, but very fortune company to be in.

* NotSoDifferent: [[TheRival Dr. Emily Peck]] claimed this to Divya, but a small-scale emergency subverted this: a boy was choking and Divya helped him, while Peck did nothing.

* {{Transgender}}: Anna, a teen trans girl in "The Prince of Nucleotides" who's sick due to self-medicating with estrogen, which triggers a condition that she has.