Byzantine?

Tom Shales says this today (about "Flash Forward"):

But other aspects are reminiscent of other shows, not so encouragingly -- among them last year's honorable failure "Pushing Daisies." The new series seems to share a perhaps fatal flaw of that now-canceled show, which is that the premise becomes so byzantine and the complications so arcane that eventually people just give up on trying to make sense of the darn thing.

What? He really found "Pushing Daisies" byzantine and arcanely complicated? Sheesh. How simple-minded is he?