"New York Magazine" put "Exposé" at the top of its list of "Twenty Most Pointless "Lost" Episodes".However, "TV Guide"'s Matt Roush very much praised the episode for "weaving flashbacks that appeared to be posthumous but really weren't while providing clever new angles on classic "Lost" moments from previous seasons", Roush went on to say that "Exposé" was "a welcome reminder that sometimes these producers really do seem to know what they're doing after all."