Matt Zoller Seitz, reviewing for Vulture, declared "Gregory" as the best episode of season 1, with the episode "Only You", which also features Gregory, as the second best. He also states "The Americans isn't mainly about espionage, just as The Sopranos wasn't mainly about the mob. The Americans is shaping up as a series about identity and secrets and the role of both within relationships. Who do we think we are? Who do we tell lovers, friends, and employers we are? And who are we, really? Do we even know for sure? What happens when our established identity - the face we present to the world, and maybe to ourselves in the mirror - is peeled back to reveal a different face underneath? What happens then?"