I wish we'd actually seen him, but at least he still did stuff in the episode. Even without appearing on screen, he was still a better character than "Trish", the lawyer woman or that random guy (Malcolm?)

Ritter isn't as bad as I thought, but she's not very good. I'd say she's adequate, nothing special but is decent enough to read the material and not be super obnoxious. Luke Cage was very bland and middle of the road, too, but its early in the show so he could get better.
The episode felt pretty padded and slow, though. They could easily have cut out the hallucination scenes, and just because Brian Michael Bendis is a weirdo doesn't mean they have to reproduce the sex scenes from the Alias comics

The beginning also could have used a trim, it took awhile to get going. I think with about 10 minutes cut this would have been a much tighter episode, but as it is it was an ok first episode. Its pretty obvious that the villain is going to be the big reason to watch the show, though.