What I’m Watching: Royal Pains

Royal Pains: Season 5, Episode 7 “Chock Full O’ Nuts” (B+)

All of this show’s plotlines are converging as Milos’ U.S. arrival grows ever nearer and nothing moves forward on Evan’s campaign while he encounters problems in his personal life. Everything involving Milos is very much in the background of the show and certainly this episode, but when Shelby casually mentioned that she got a call from Hungary, it completed changed the tone of the episode. Hopefully Paige’s carefully-catalogued auction will be effective enough to get Milos on a plane, but I suspect that there’s trouble in store for the Lawson brothers before that happens. It’s pretty monumental that HankMed has now officially been acquired, but this installment was much more about the process of getting there and the unexpected romantic entanglement between Shelby and Keller. It was good to see Josh Cooke, recently seen on “Dexter” and “Better With You,” as the spin instructor experiencing symptoms of his own, and to see Hank connect as he always does with someone he meets in some random situation. On the home front, Divya staging a violent choking fit in Jeremiah’s kitchen was probably ill-advised, but it’s nice to see that he’s trying to adapt to having other people in his life. Evan and Paige’s fight was pretty miserable, but it’s reassuring to see that Evan knows exactly how to atone for his mistakes. They’re one power couple who would be well-served to stay happy with each other because they seem to be connected to just about anyone in the Hamptons and could surely get a lot done together.