 Writing for "The A.V.Club", Emily VanDerWerff rated the episode a C+, finding that it was "almost completely crippled by ... self-seriousness".VanDerWerff felt that the episode reflected "Millennium" seeming simultaneously both "intrinsically of the 1990s" and "ahead of its time", find that its treatment of "the dread and shadowy fear and sense that the world held several cloaked and mysterious evils for well-to-do Americans" was a symptom of 1990s preoccupation with "the end of the world" while foreshadowing the mood of the United States following the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001.