 The episode was selected as recommended viewing by Laws of the "Sunday Mercury".The launch of "Hollyoaks Later" series one, in which Niall returns to target Steph, was named a "Satellite Pick of the Day" by the "Daily Record".Christopher Howse, writing "Tatworld" for "The Daily Telegraph"—a column chronicling tabloid culture—named Steph and her family joint tenth in a list of Top Ten Deans, which included entrants such as Dean Koontz, Dean Gaffney and Richard Dean Anderson.