For all we know about Chuck's dad on Pushing Daisies, and how his death left her an orphan, we've never really heard anything about her mother. Until the jaw-dropper of a revelation at the end of Wednesday's episode.

I realize that headline pretty much states the obvious: If there's anything Pushing Daisies is not afraid of, it's being sweet, sometimes cloyingly so.

When you think of "gangsta," Pushing Daisies is probably about the last TV show you would associate with it.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but I find it amusing that a key point in this week's Pushing Daisies mystery is that the killer has hypoglycemia, i.e. low blood sugar. Because this show, whatever it may be, is never lacking in the sweetness.

Has there ever been a more natural pairing of sensibilities than Pushing Daisies and They Might Be Giants? OK, probably (Lennon and McCartney come to mind). But it still worked really well in Wednesday's episode.

Veteran TV writer Ken Levine recently explained on his blog how the second episode of a new show is often the toughest one to write, caught as it is between the blow-it-all-out pilot and the week-to-week work of an ongoing show.

The facts are these: Episode two of Pushing Daisies absolutely kept up the whimsical tone and magical visuals of its pilot, along with some wonderfully sweet moments featuring our two protagonists.

Critics here, there and everywhere have already sung the praises of Pushing Daisies, and while I'm pretty much in full agreement, I don't want just to repeat what they've already said (not all of it, anyway). I'm just as interested in what you think.