After watching the verygoodness that was Veronica Mars season 1, I decided to give Rob Thomas's newish show "Cupid" a shot. As you might have heard, the show is a bit of a phenomenon since it's a revamped version of a show that failed eleven years ago. The original version of the show starred Jeremy Piven
 and tanked. Still, ABC execs apparently liked the idea enough to give it a second chance. The outcome? It's OK. I'm a fan of Thomas's writing but there's no real sense of urgency to the show. I might give it another chance but it's basically watching a contrived rom-com from the perspective of the contrivance. It's one of those shows that is perfectly OK, which isn't enough to survive in the TV universe. I don't think they could have really done much of anything better; it's just a premise than doesn't really lend itself to weekly viewing. I think Thomas, like Josh Schwartz, might be better suited for film or more focused one-off seasons.

That being said, I tried looking for old shows that I wish they would give another chance to (I'm sure half of the people out there are thinking of a Manimal joke right now) but the one thing I kept coming back to was a high school show that actually took place in, you know, high school. A new private eye drama could be good too, and I mean one that doesn't have an outsider inexplicably joining the ranks of the police and working like a cop (ala The Mentalist and Castle, although I don't mind Castle that much. It's almost like a Y2K version of Murder, She Wrote).