5 to 9 much better than most of this season that [he] felt it deserved mention". Sepinwall praised Edelstein's acting and the episode's "day-in-the-life" format, citing "5 to 9" as proof that "there are still really strong elements to this series." Jonah Krakow of IGN rated "5 to 9" 9.2/10, signifying an "outstanding" episode. Kraków compared it positively to the earlier season six episode "Wilson", which similarly varied from the show's traditional format by depicting events from the perspective of House's friend James Wilson. He deemed the episode "amazing", calling it a "great showcase" for Edelstein and suggesting that a show centered on
9-orthoplex 9-orthoplex In geometry, a 9-orthoplex or 9-cross polytope, is a regular 9-polytope with 18 vertices, 144 edges, 672 triangle faces, 2016 tetrahedron cells, 4032 5-cells "4-faces", 5376 5-simplex "5-faces", 4608 6-simplex "6-faces", 2304 7-simplex "7-faces", and 512 8-simplex "8-faces". It has two constructed forms, the first being regular with Schläfli symbol {3,4}, and the second with alternately labeled (checkerboarded) facets, with Schläfli symbol {3,3} or Coxeter symbol 6. It is one of an infinite family of polytopes, called cross-polytopes or "orthoplexes". The dual polytope is the 9-hypercube or enneract. There are two Coxeter groups associated with the 9-orthoplex, one regular,