Cupid (2009 TV series)
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Cupid now starring Bobby Cannavale as Trevor Pierce and Sarah Paulson as Claire McCrae, premiered on ABC on March 31, 2009. A remake of the 1998 series of the same name but so far, besides the name and casting changes, the big differences are that the series is set in New York City instead of Chicago, Champ has been split into Felix Araiza and his sister Lita, and the Irish pub/performance space Trevor slings drinks at is now an adult movie theater turned Mariachi-Karaoke bar.
Tropes used in Cupid (2009 TV series) include:
- Backstory - The show's first ten minutes introduce us to Cupid and Dave, and give us the Backstory that was only mentioned in the 1998 show; Trevor ends up in a mental hospital as a man under the harmless delusion he's the god of love cast down from Olympus for sloppy work in making love matches.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension - And how.
- Big Applesauce - moving the show from Chicago to New York City.
- California Doubling - Averted; the shows are set and filmed in their respective cities (Chicago, 1998; New York, 2009).
- Elevator Going Down
- Friday Night Death Slot
- The Last DJ - done literally in one episode.
- Line-of-Sight Name - Trevor's name comes from the fresco behind the judges in the hearing panel:
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"...the world felt the tremor / and the darkness was pierced" |
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- Literary Agent Hypothesis - Trevor treats the book of mythology as if some writer got most of the details right. He claims Cupid has no mortal wife called Psyche. Presumably because if Trevor is Cupid, he just hasn't found her yet.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane - We don't know if Trevor Hale is delusional or exactly who he says he is.
- Mythology Gag - using actual mythology.
- Screwed by the Network - Debatable; it was put on after Dancing With the Stars which is arguably a decent lead-in, but 10 pm is never a good timeframe for a brand new show, and they pre-empted it with The Unusuals at least once during its first run.
- Setting Update - The Cupid/Psyche myth in CONTEMPORARY TIMES.
- Screwed by the Network - bounced around from the Friday Night Death Slot to Saturday to Thursday to cancelled.
- Will They or Won't They? - Trevor eggs Claire on regarding how much time she seems to want to spend around him outside of his therapy sessions.