"But most of it came down to one thing: the show had no plan. I’m not saying it needed to be charted out with the kind of meticulous complexity of The Wire, where each moment shuttles warp or weft in an interconnected whole. But it would have been nice to feel that, at some point after the pilot aired, someone on the executive team had gathered his writers, stood in front of an easel, and with them crafted some broad ideas for how things should progress—filling in signposts for each character, and the group overall, with respect to how they might thoughtfully take us there. Instead, it seemed that every idea and action was contrived extemporaneously, and without scheme or strategy. Intoxicated by the lingering strains of Don’t Stop Believin’, the executive team apparently believed if they simply boarded the midnight train, it would truly take them anywhere."