 Fowler and Nick McHatton, a TV Fanatic critic, stated that this was the best episode of the program since "Pilot"; Handlen said that the episode, for the most part, was "a great hour of television, and a fine uptick from the last couple weeks of Awake", while Bonaime called it "one of Awake's most compelling episodes to date". McHatton called the emotional problems of the episode "heart wrenching" to watch ", as they had him in tears; he gave a" 4.9 out of 5 "rating for the episode. Handlen complimented the" powerful scene, as [Michael] tries to convince her father that he should do anything possible to avoid losing touch with his daughter ", and also noted that the episode" raises the stakes for [Michael], changing what he's come to accept as his routine for the first time since the start of the series: while bungee jumping at a fair with Rex and Emma in [the green reality], [Michael] has a fainting spell, and comes to in [the red reality] ". Handlen claimed the episode" doesn 't seem to fit everything else ".
