Holding on tight to all remaining signs of summer? You’ve come to the right place: Welcome to the Hamptons, where the skies are always blue, the tide is always flowing, and you’re never too far from an afternoon gathering of wealthy, beautiful people with a lot of time on their hands. Indeed, this is the idyllic setting of Royal Pains, a medical drama about a doctor named Hank Lawson who has found himself at the beck and call of the super-rich. Season 2 of the series premieres on Showcase on Wednesday at 10pm ET/PT.

I’m usually reluctant to come into a series without starting from the first episode -- I fear that missing an inaugural season's worth of exposition will find me lost in a sea of intersecting character arcs. Lucky for us all, though, I had the pleasure of interviewing the show’s costar, Paulo Costanzo, who plays Hank’s brother Evan, and he agreed to help me -- and our readers -- get right up to speed:

“The show is basically about a New York ER doctor who makes a judgment call between two patients. One of them lives, and the one who dies turns out to be the founder of the hospital.  So he gets slapped with malpractice and blacklisted from the city. His fiancé leaves him and his life falls apart. 

Enter his charming, funny, superficial, accountant, kind of annoying younger brother who whisks him away to a huge party in the Hamptons at a castle where a model almost dies. Hank saves her, like a superhero, and gains the attention of Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz, who then hires him on as his own personal doctor.

Thus begins the adventures of Hank Lawson as a concierge doctor in the Hamptons. And Evan, the entrepreneurial younger brother, turns it into HankMed, a business.”

Okay. So Hank is a doctor working in the Hamptons, Evan (Costanzo) is his sidekick, and Boris is his keeper.  Sounds simple enough.

Costanzo did offer up one more crucial piece of the family puzzle that would benefit new viewers: “Henry Winkler – The Fonz – has reappeared in the boys lives. He [plays] their father, who abandoned them at 20, while their mother was dying of cancer.”

Can you smell the impending family drama?

And with that, we’re ready for the premiere. I’ll be tuning in, of course. Will you? Hit the comments and let me know. And check this spot every week, as I’ll be recapping and dropping more excerpts from my chat with Paulo.