"Tim Teeman writing in "The Times" described episode one as, "hopelessly muddled, slow and uninsightful," opining that "Allen managed to extinguish all the lyricism, and spirit of adventure and discovery, from Newby’s work," but concluding that, "it was lovely to see Newby in archive footage cycle in the roiling morning commute, head high and defiantly and perilously weaving through the middle lane as beeping echoed all about him.