After years of toiling in cable anonymity, USA has finally found its niche: breezy, good-looking shows about breezy, good-looking people with unconventional jobs. Next to its higher-profile timeslot-partner
Burn Notice,
Royal Pains is probably the most USA-y USA series; it stars sitcom veteran Mark Feuerstein as Hank Lawson,
... a disgraced surgeon who to make ends meet becomes a private doctor for the rich and famous — in the Hamptons! For the past two summers, six million people a week have tuned in for Hank's adventures, which include a romance with a local hospital administrator, conflict with his ne'er-do-well father (played by Henry Winkler!) and medical cases involving an eccentric German nobleman. And yet, none of these plotlines have been the subject of slideshows on Jezebel.
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