Cupid

A little while back we were flipping stations looking for some hours to kill before bed and came across this cheese-ball of a show that happened to be the best thing on. The longer I watched the more familiar it seemed. The setup around this man in serious need of some sort of depressant attempting to get people to hook up. During the cut to commercial there was the title Cupid. I was stunned.

About 10 years ago I was addicted to a show named Cupid. A guy named Trevor, thinks he's Cupid, kicked off Olympus, if he gets enough couples matched up he gets admittance back onto that most spectacular of mountain tops. His foil is Claire, the psychiatrist assigned to him because come on, he thinks he's Cupid. Could this be a revival of that show? I wasn't really sure, it had been a while since I had seen the it, but this didn't have the feel of what I was remembering. The premise was the same, but the soul was different.

Quick search of YouTube revealed every episode (all 13 of them) posted and awaiting my viewing pleasure. My wife and I quickly devoured every episode that YouTube had to offer, and were both rather somber when the realization that there would never be another one sank in.

This was a great show!!! It took an outlandish concept and made it work. The writing was smart and sharp. The actors were above usual TV grade - in fact the lead actor of the show was non-other than Jeremy Piven. Who better to play an over-caffeinated, match-making madman?!!?? Why was it cancelled???

Apparently low ratings finished off Cupid. A Saturday night time slot did not work for its audience. Of course a Saturday night time slot does it for very few shows. Why?? It was another case of wondering how in the world studio executives still keep drawing paychecks. Someone realized that Cupid was a gem and tried to revive it, but the quality is not there, they are missing the point and they will never get that cast back.

Watching the old Cupid was like meeting a lost acquaintance and spending lunch time catching up. Why can't good shows stay on the air? Guess its for the best, if shows like this were on all the time I wouldn't get much done.

I can't say that I'm entirely sad that it was killed before it got a second season, a complete first season would have been nice though. There were a lot of questions, was Trevor really Cupid? Would he hook up with Claire and break out of his "delusion"? The show was far to smart to actively engage in trying to answer these questions. Its good that the show finished before writers came along who actually thought it would be a good idea to answer whether Trevor was really Cupid. The good die young in TV shows too I guess...