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‘CUPID’ ARROW MISSES

IF you’ve never had an in terested suitor impose the Big Gesture on you, then ABC’s revival of the 1990s dramedy “Cupid” is so not up your alley that you may as well live on Mt. Olympus.

And that just happens to be where Cupid (Bobby Cannavale) comes from in this sweet, not-horrible show. Cupid, we learn, was caught slacking off and so Zeus threw him to Earth and won’t allow him back until he’s successfully matched 100 couples the old fashioned way.

Since I’ve been insanely fortunate enough to have had the Big Gesture imposed upon me a few times (there was the guy who sent the pot of gold and . . . oh, never mind), I wasn’t as turned off by the opening scene of “Cupid” as I should have been.

The show opens over Times Square on New Year’s Eve where Cupid and Dave, an Irish singer (Sean Maguire), are putting their own lighted sign atop the ball. Dave wants to find his missing fantasy girl, Holly. OK, that would be called “The Gigantic Gesture.”

Cupid is arrested and sent to a loony bin where he meets his new shrink/reluctant love interest, Dr. Claire McCrae (Sarah Paulson). Cupid’s wife was Psyche, get it?

One hundred couples means 100 episodes. Maybe Zeus better rethink this. Ten is more like it.