 The episode received average reviews from critics. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club gave the episode B- rating. He said the episode "[was] filled with more laughs than [he] predicted". While stating that Meg's humor comes from the same place each time, he enjoyed the action scenes in the episode. Carter Doston of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 2.5 / 5 rating. He noted that the episode leaned on Taken too much, however he enjoyed some funny moments in it. He stated that "the story seriously follows the same arc as the movie, just in 20 minutes. They find the Eastern Europeans who sold her to slavers, go on a car chase to rescue her and enter into a shootout on a boat to rescue her." He continued, "Of course, there are jokes thrown in, and some humorous deconstructions of action movies and of the movie it parodies. For example, the' car chase GPS ' scene."
