What I’m Watching: Royal Pains

Royal Pains: Season 5, Episode 6 “Can of Worms” (B+)

There’s nothing quite as dramatic as someone being impaled by an umbrella, even on a show with regularly-occurring outrageous cases as this one. It was a particularly poor coincidence for Evan in the middle of his campaign rally as his number one heckler was the victim, but, all in all, things turned out just fine. The eccentric Michael Chernus, who has appeared in “The Big C” and “Mercy,” among other projects, was a great choice to play Pat, who hilariously told Hank that he needed to finish his follow-up quickly so that he could continue making his inspired “Against the Lawson” stickers. Hank’s bantering with another Hamptonite was just as entertaining, and that was the trainer slash boyfriend who tried too hard to motivate his girlfriend, Skinny Minnie, and wanted to compete with Hank for who knew more about how to take care of her, medical degree aside. Playing the kindly Minnie was an actress known for playing a much pricklier personality, Mrs. Ari on “Entourage,” Perrey Reeves. Another gruff guest star, Bob Gunton, was nicer than usual as the General, who this time tried to encourage Evan to keep on going with his campaign even though Paige had actually wanted him to scare him out of the race. I’m glad that Paige spoke up to Evan and they found a happy medium, and it looks like Paige is now going to be rather directly involved in the latest Lawson family caper related to Boris and his duplicitous family members.