The Rocky Horror Glee Show "Slant Magazine" called it a "travesty" and criticized "the arms-length treatment of the Frank N. Furter character", and Amy Reiter of the "Los Angeles Times" deemed the episode flawed through its sanitization, despite initially having found the two shows "a particularly promising match". "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" received several favorable comparisons to previous themed episodes; Erica Futterman of "Rolling Stone" deemed it the best yet. Both "Entertainment Weekly" Tim Stack and Jarett Wieselman of the "New York Post" preferred it to the Britney Spears tribute episode "Britney/Brittany"; Wieselman hailed it as a "run-away success" that would satisfy "Rocky Horror"
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again like a production on "Glee" than the actual production of "Rocky Horror" on "Glee" did", although he did praise the casting of Cox, saying "In the long history of "The Rocky Horror Show", the musical has broken down doors and helped pave the way for an era of LGBT acceptance. So for Cox to step into Tim Curry's iconic fishnets is a victory in its own right." The program was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. The film was scheduled to be broadcast in New Zealand on TV3 on October 24, 2016, three