fears aside and gave me confidence everything would work out in the end. I do still wish they would give us a bigger view of the world of Defiance but I’ve come to terms with the fact that this won’t happen." Rowan Kaiser of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C+ rating saying that Quentin's return was unnecessary since his plot in the first season were the weakest and that Kenya's return was all about re-engaging with the first season. "In short, almost every single aspect of “Painted From Memory” served as a direct continuation of first-season storylines, and I think that demands questions. What is gained by bringing Quentin and Kenya back? Is the story improved by this diversion into the past? And I think the answer, while somewhat ambiguous, comes down mostly on "No!"" Katelyn Barnes of Geeks Unleashed rated the episode with 7/10 saying that the show managed to shatter the hopes that raised so high in the previous episode with Kenya's return. "[Kenya's] emotional return in Slouching Towards Bethlehem was emotional and heartwarming [...] Well, turns out Kenya never returned, she’s dead, skull in the ground dead, and the Kenya walking around Defiance? Yeah, she’s a Cylon." Michael Ahr of Den of Geek rated the episode with 3/5 saying that the show was due for a misstep and that the episode had plenty of entertaining callbacks from season 1. "I’m sure Defiance will bounce back from this misstep, and truth be told, the show was due for a dud." Billy Grifter from Den of Geek said that the show managed to surprise him this week and he did not know if he was happy or really infuriated. "Part of me liked that I’d got it wrong last week when I’d concluded that the masked assailant was Niles, because I’d forgotten about another missing character. But what was transplanted into its place made very little sense at times, and was as close as the show has come to a true shark-jumping moment." References External links 2014 American television episodes Defiance (season 2) episodes