Conversely, Price Peterson, writing for "TV.com", gave a more mixed review, heavily criticizing the resolution to Veronica's rape case. While calling it an "entertaining episode", he said that it had an "appalling message." He explained by writing that "egardless of Duncan having been drugged, Veronica could not give consent to him any more than she could to the dudes who were playing puppet-girl with her during the party. Regardless of the retroactive comfort of knowing that she'd lost her virginity to someone she liked, Veronica did not remember it...That kind of psychological trauma goes away immediately?" Kimberly Roots of TV Line called the episode "cathartic" and that "we get a huge reveal from Duncan, some unintentionally very public LoVe PDA and a say-it-ain’t-so-Logan! cliffhanger that swings us right into the season finale."