 "Exposé" received mixed reviews.Lindelof admitted that the episode "created a varying degree of fan reaction", with some fans even describing it as "filler".But Cuse defended "Exposé", saying it was "a little bit more of an anthology episode for the show", and that he felt that "it's unrealistic, in a show that is now 72 episodes in, that every episode is gonna be, you know, chock full of plot momentum.