I'm impressed because I know Bryan Fuller's other work so I'm fairly sure he already has a direction in mind. I think one of the faults of this episode is that it wasn't two hours. A two hour "Pie-lette" would have allowed for the info dump to have been drawn out and I think would have been better pacing to wrap up Chuck's murder (which I thought would be an on-going investigation, actually). But the quirkiness, the romance, the coloring all won me over.