 Tom Phillips of Metro stated that " Amy and Canton 's sojourn to the orphanage was not just a high @-@ mark for sheer skin @-@ crawling horror on recent mainstream telly — that image of The Silence nesting on the ceiling like cadaverous bat @-@ people will live on in the nightmares of many , many children — but also genuinely , properly weird . " Dave Golder from SFX thought that although the series was " shaping up to be like no other before it , as the show moves even further away from its traditional series of sequential standalone stories format and more towards Lost style storytelling " , that the episode " is no mere exercise in delayed gratification . You want fun ? You want creepy ? You want action ? You 've got it – all not @-@ so @-@ neatly tied up with a neat bow tie . " Golder went on to state that " once again we 're treated to some outstanding direction , glorious performances , near flawless FX and gorgeous locations ... " Day Of The Moon " is huge fun , effortlessly entertaining , beguilingly bat 's @-@ arse and blessed with a cliffhanger so <unk> unexpected it 's bound to keep viewers hooked " . He gave the episode a rating of four out of five stars . 
