Friday, April 3, 2009

Cupid's Arrows Don't Quite Hit

Grade: B-



Cupid has a simple enough premise: Trevor Pierce (Bobby Cannavale) believes he is Cupid, banished from Mount Olympus until he can unite 100 couples in true love. That means every week is a new romantic comedy, and as HIMYM's Marshall would say, spoiler alert: it ends with you saying awww.

Remade from Rob Thomas' short-lived 1998 version starring Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall, this doesn't feel like the Rob Thomas who created Veronica Mars, that big old cynic with the marshmellow filling. This one's all marshmellow, from start to end.

Now, I'm not one to begrudge anyone some super light fluff in dark times, but did it have to be so cheesy? I'm not sure I've ever seen such an earnestly sincere show. Some characters declare themselves a "typical cynical New Yorker," just to show how uncynical they will soon become. And every now and then Trevor will just raise his hands, smile, and yell "Love!" just in case we forgot what the show was about.

No offense to Cannavale, who certainly makes for a charismatic lead, but his hyper energy may be working overtime here. I imagine Jeremy Piven would have been able to give the part a bit more of an edge. Sarah Paulson is perfectly adequate as the shrink with the opposing viewpoint on love who Trevor must inevitably fall in love with, but there's absolutely no chemistry between them.

If you like the idea of a Meg Ryan-style romance every week, in which characters gush about true love and cross oceans to prove it, this is the show for you. But me, I like a little more substance, even when I am watching pure fluff. It's too bad they couldn't have at least tried for a s'more.

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