 Fowler and Nick McHatton , a TV Fanatic critic , stated that this was the best episode of the program since " Pilot " ; Handlen said that the episode , for the most part , was " a great hour of television , and a fine uptick from the last couple weeks of Awake " , while Bonaime called it " one of Awake 's most compelling episodes to date " . McHatton called the emotional problems of the episode " heart wrenching " to watch " , as they had him in tears ; he gave a " 4 @.@ 9 out of 5 " rating for the episode . Handlen complimented the " powerful scene , as [ Michael ] tries to convince her father that he should do anything possible to avoid losing touch with his daughter " , and also noted that the episode " raises the stakes for [ Michael ] , changing what he 's come to accept as his routine for the first time since the start of the series : while bungee jumping at a fair with Rex and Emma in [ the green reality ] , [ Michael ] has a fainting spell , and comes to in [ the red reality ] " . Handlen claimed the episode " doesn 't seem to fit everything else " . 
