Cupid

Cupid

1998
Cupid
Cupid

Cupid

7.8 | en | Drama

Trevor Hale is an attractive, sarcastic and irreverent man who claims to be Cupid, the Roman god of love, and has descended from Mount Olympus to work on Earth.

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EP17  Chapter Six
Jan. 01,0001
Chapter Six

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EP16  Company Pier
Jan. 01,0001
Company Pier

While Champ finally has some luck with the ladies, he has trouble deciding if she's using her job to get him or not. At the same time a vicious nurse gives ""the love police"" at human resources proof that suggests that Trevor and Claire are having an affair. The hospital doesn't permit this of course, and during the investigation, Trevor gets another doctor, who thinks that Trevor would be easy to crack.

EP15  Botched Makeover
Jan. 01,0001
Botched Makeover

When Trevor visits the set of Champ's TV-show he meets an intelligent, modest assistant who never got much respect from her colleagues. When he hears she sends herself flowers to spice up her boring life, he invites her for one of Claire's sessions. During the first session she already gets in contact with Tom Caighne, a first class womanizer.

EP14  The Children's Hour
Feb. 11,1999
The Children's Hour

Precocious twins ask Trevor to find a match for their single, down-on-men mom, triggering Champ's memories of a former relationship.

EP13  Bachelorette Party
Jan. 28,1999
Bachelorette Party

Trevor ruins a bachelorette party Claire is giving for her best friend when he reveals that her fiance has been having a long-term affair with a promiscuous former classmate.

EP12  Grand Delusions
Jan. 14,1999
Grand Delusions

Trevor tries to arrange a match between a man who thinks he's Don Quixote and an exotic dancer, while Claire has a reunion with her jazz-musician father.

EP11  A Great Personality
Jan. 07,1999
A Great Personality

Trevor tries to help a new member of the singles group, a woman who wants to be loved for her personality rather than her looks, while Claire revisits an old nemesis in hopes of discovering clues to Trevor's true identity.

EP10  Hung Jury
Dec. 19,1998
Hung Jury

While Christmas shopping, Claire and Trevor get caught up in jury duty. Claire has plans to spend the holidays with Alex and so - like most of the other jurors - would like to get this over with as quickly as possible. But Trevor, who was going to spend Christmas alone anyway, spots two possible matches and voluntarily votes differently then the others. He then desperately tries to convince everyone that the man who is being judged actually is innocent...

EP9  The End of an Eros
Dec. 12,1998
The End of an Eros

Claire is delighted when her old professor, Dr. Wyatt, shows up at her office. She announces that she has just published a book and Claire invites her to attend her next singles group. But when her mentor speaks up at the meeting, she is startled to hear her claim that love is a myth. Needless to say, Trevor is just as baffled and, for once, the two of them are in agreement. Then Alex tells Claire that he was offered an important job - but in another city. Claire starts to doubt and lose her faith in the power of love...

EP8  Heart of the Matter
Nov. 21,1998
Heart of the Matter

While looking for good romance videos to rent, Trevor meets Dan, the coach of a local hockey team. He invites him to a party at the bar, deciding that he should help him find his true love - namely, his neighbor Susan, a woman who seems to keep to herself, avoiding conversation and all contact with other people. Meanwhile, Claire is wondering why Alex seems to be avoiding her and fears that he may want to dump her. But the truth is that he is falling in love with her and afraid of his own feelings for her. Trevor finally manages to draw Susan to the party and have her meet Dan. But when she realizes that the man is trying to set her up, she flees. She later explains to Trevor that she cannot start a relationship because she only has six months left to live.

EP7  Pick-Up Schticks
Nov. 07,1998
Pick-Up Schticks

Trevor is growing desperate. Caught between his desire to return home and his jealousy at seeing Claire having a serious relationship with Alex, he makes his first mistakes as a love counselor. On one side, he encourages a man to use a ""sure score"" pick-up technique that gets him the woman he wants but leaves him distressed and disgusted with himself for he feels he cannot be with a woman that would fall for such a trick. On the other end of the tunnel, his friend and roommate Champ is starting a new relationship and Trevor can't help but intervene - and in ways that pushes the woman away rather than bring her closer. And somewhere in the middle, Trevor himself is caught up in a strange relationship with Helen Davis, a woman he met at the bar. They're both attracted to each other, but Trevor tells Champ he can't have a relationship with a mortal, or he'll lose his immortality. And yet, he might just be desperate enough to not want it anymore...

EP6  Meat Market
Oct. 31,1998
Meat Market

Champ tells Trevor that everytime he meets a girl, he ends up in a relationship. For once, he would like to experiment a one-night stand, to know how it feels. With Halloween just around the corner, Trevor feels this is the perfect opportunity to make his friend's dream come true. He also invites Claire's other patients to the party, telling them to forget their inhibitions and to just have fun. As for Claire, he challenges her, certain that she would turn down any man even if he were perfect for her. To prove his point, he searches and finds Alex, who seems a perfect match. While Claire first does seem reluctant, she finally falls under the man's charm - much to Trevor's dismay.

EP5  First Loves
Oct. 24,1998
First Loves

Champ introduces Claire and Trevor to his long-time friend Sophie, a would-be singer who just signed a contract with a record company. When Sophie claims she does not believe in love, Trevor feels obliged to prove her wrong. They start discussing the past and Sophie's one-time crush, when she was a kid, comes to the surface. They decide to go back to her hometown and see what her old love interest has become, hoping that maybe something magical will happen. Claire is concerned and quite against the whole idea until her superior says that Trevor may have to be committed to a mental institute. She then feels that this little adventure may help her further her knowledge of Trevor and help decide on what to do with him... This episode contains a number of black & white flashbacks, offering scenes of Sophie's, Champ's and Claire's youth. Obviously, Trevor was left out of the loop...

EP4  A Truly Fractured Fairy Tale
Oct. 17,1998
A Truly Fractured Fairy Tale

Claire is receiving strange gifts from a secret admirer. While she slowly begins to fall for him, Trevor helps one of her patients meet the man of her dreams - a man she sees everyday on a billboard across the street from her work! In the meantime, Champ is asked to do some modelling ; reluctant, he finally decides to go for it when he realizes how much this exposure can help his burgeoning career as an actor. Structured like a fairy tale (""once upon a time, there was a princess...""), this episode is a wonderful example of television at its best. Also, Trevor's feelings for Claire become quite obvious with this episode.

EP3  Heaven, He's in Heaven
Oct. 10,1998
Heaven, He's in Heaven

A woman seeks Claire's help when she fears her marriage is in jeopardy because her husband feels frequent and sudden urges to sing and dance in public.

EP2  The Linguist
Oct. 03,1998
The Linguist

Still intrigued with Trevor, wondering who he really is and where he comes from, Claire jumps on the opportunity when she meets a linguist who seems able to tell someone's origins just from his patterns of speech. She introduces him to Trevor, who - of course - cannot resist helping the man when he learns that he is still a virgin.

EP1  Pilot
Sep. 26,1998
Pilot

When a man claims to be Cupid, he is placed in the care of a psychiatrist who takes him under her wing. Obsessed with his mission on Earth, the man now known as Trevor Hale decides to help a woman find her true love.

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Trevor Hale is an attractive, sarcastic and irreverent man who claims to be Cupid, the Roman god of love, and has descended from Mount Olympus to work on Earth.

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Jeremy Piven , Paula Marshall , Jeffrey D. Sams

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sylargirl21 A friend watched this on youtube and recommended it to me. It wasn't the first time I'd heard of it but it was the first time I knew where to watch it. I watched the first episode...and was hooked.I love Jeremy Piven as an actor, I think he has great comedic timing and this where it shines. Paula Marshall (who I last saw in More Than A Feeling, I think it was called, with Bette Midler) is also very good. The straight character to Piven's crazy one.The show was created by Rob Thomas, creator of Veronica Mars. And Hart Hanson, creator of Bones, was the consulting/supervising producer for the show. Basically Piven's character, Trevor Hale, believes he's Cupid, the Greco-Roman God of Erotic Love. Whether he is or not is left for the audience to figure out. Personally I believe he is but that's just me. Marshall is his psychologist, Claire Allen. I recommend this show to anyone who believes in love, the Greek Gods and Jeremy Piven.It is being remade for TV again. I wonder if that will be good enough to compare to the excellence that Cupid was.
nkosi-a I've been watching the new series Entourage and really like Piven's character. Although Entourage is a great show, it's really not in the same category as Cupid was. I remember watching a few episodes of Cupid and thought it was one of the THE best shows ever written and produced. I'm glad to see all the positive reviews even after the show was canceled a while ago. Hopefully someone will finally make the big push to put this series on DVD to cure all the Cupid's fan's appetites, its the least they can do since the show is no longer being produced, otherwise that would truly be ideal. Jeremy Piven is a wonderfully diverse actor and has been nominated for quite a few awards but I still think he is very under-rated for his performances.
Ernie Cordell While I feel that my impressions of this work is generally aligned with the other proponents of its continuation, I would largely omit many of the superlatives praising its art, performance and collection of virtues.I don't mean to attack the show in my criticism, I'd just like to try the understated defense of that collection of virtues. In doing so, I'd like to try to guess why it was cancelled. Sponsorship strikes me first and foremost: I would guess that whatever it was supposed to be selling, it didn't hit the market demographic or some other equally enlightening pseudoscientific ratings language. This strikes me of the sort of industry error that one might compare to pitching to one person and charging another. If you make a show that a lot of people seem to like, it doesn't make sense to complain that it doesn't sell enough lawn-mowers to the 50+ crowd; or maybe it's just me.A more legitimate reason might seem to be that the show relied too heavily on the bubbly babbling of the Jeremy Piven character(s). It might seem, from a production viewpoint, that it would be too difficult to sustain that Dolly-Madison-a-la-Streisand tenor over a series of a number of shows. While part of me says, "While the people are still watching, who cares?" but my realistic side says that we do have to predict the future when we write, produce, direct and play in performance art. Further complicating the idea of sustaining the expected tension is the notion of suspending disbelief or finally deciding whether our "Cupid" is a Greek God or someone with a personality disorder.Maybe one of the things that the show failed to accomplish is its intent that was reflected in an episode of the series "Bewitched" about a witch, in this case, who conjures up Benjamin Franklin. Evidently the disbelieving public of that imaginary world were ready to commit poor Benny until witch Samantha Stevens steps in to defend Franklin's antics as "reminders of Benjamin Franklin's great deeds" whether he were a counterfeit Benjamin or not. While difficult to sustain throughout a series, a previous incarnation of "Relationship Rescue" might be to pay attention to a present-day interpretation of another, possibly slower-moving civilization's attitudes toward love and romance.Whether a real "Cupid" or "Eros" would espouse the sanitized semi-serious sitcom alternative to pop psychology relationship advice is rather immaterial. After all, it is not a serious contrast of 20th century head-shrinking against Golden-Age Grecian attitudes on romance, it is an appeal to look at issues we consider agonizingly complex and idealize them into a simplicity we can digest. An irony that may have been lost on a big part of the audience is that this is both a goal of "science" and the more "holistic" approaches reflected in the modernized presentation of a Greek God's practical common sense.Was it a bad move to cancel the show? I believe it was -- not so much because it was such stunningly good art -- but maybe because it could have been if effort were given to sustaining the mood and supporting the premise. If I might make a bad and clichéd comparison, it is as though the advice on romance were wholly missed by those who originally promoted it: They loved it enough to commit in the beginning, but they lacked the perspicacity to dedicate time and effort to solving the problems that may have plagued it in some projected future.The pathology reminds me of current publishing policies: A good story told well isn't enough; we want the name recognition up front so that we don't have to cultivate a good thing.
silliblonde1971 Cupid was the first and ONLY time that I actually wrote to a network regarding their miserable programming!!!!! Finally there was a good show on ABC, as I do not usually watch this channel, and they canceled it before it could find an audience. Since this series ended I've seen this occur numerous times on several other networks and still get p***ed every time it happens!! I have now relegated myself to cable programming because they will often stick with a good program (when they recognize one) even if the ratings to not meet their needs. When will network executive begin to listen to the consumer who is purchasing (viewing) their product? Does it even matter anymore whether we all watch the shows or not? I'm seriuosly sick and tired of buying a product only to get lousy customer service and the television industry is no exception. Fansites like "Farscape", which was canceled on the SciFi network, have raised $80,000 and are shopping the series to get another station to pick it up. Has it really come to that??Dawn