Pilot review: Cupid

So, Cupid. I know this is a remake of a show Rob Thomas tried to make in the late 90s with Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall. I have only the vaguest memory of that version. But I tried not to think about that fact at all as I was watching this. I was basically thinking "Come on, Rob Thomas. Make me a new Veronica Mars." I'm pretty sure he didn't really do that, but I'll probably watch a few more episodes of this. I only have a couple of real points to make about it:

1) Bobby Cannavale is just a little too guido for my taste. I know it was unreasonable to expect the same type of SoCali-goodness that Veronica Mars provided, but did it have to be so New York-ish? Eh.

2) Sarah Paulson looks much, much better as a brunette. Why does she have to be blonde? Why does every show always have to have a blonde? (Okay, after writing this I did a Google image search to come up with a picture of her with brown hair and I couldn't find a single good one. Obviously she's blonde a lot more often than I realized. But does it have to be such an aggressive blonde?)

That was pretty much my whole impression of the show. It had a few cute moments, a few good one liners, and the Irish guy was really charming (and completely made up for the presence of Marguerite Moreau), but overall it wasn't the overwhelming clever brilliance I was hoping for. Like I said, though, I'll at least watch a few more episodes...if it lasts that long.