<P> The episode's Canadian broadcast, also on May 24, 2011, drew 1.77 million viewers . It was the seventh most - watched show of the week, and ranked twice as high as "Funeral", which was watched by 1.58 million viewers . In the UK, the episode aired on June 13, 2011, and was watched by 2.61 million viewers (2.03 million on E4, and 573,000 on E4 + 1). It was the most watched show on cable for the week, and again increased viewership on "Funeral", which was watched by 2.19 million viewers . In Australia, "New York" aired on June 15, 2011, and was watched by 987,000 viewers, which made Glee the tenth most - watched show of the night . Viewership here declined from "Funeral", which was watched by 1.07 million and ranked seventh . </P> <P> "New York" was met with mixed reviews by many critics . Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone wrote, "We didn't actually expect the New Directions to win nationals, but the episode just felt like it was going through the motions rather than seizing the opportunity to do something truly spectacular ." The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff called the episode a "good piece of television", and gave it a "B +". He said it "wasn't as good" as the first - season finale, "Journey to Regionals", "largely because it wasted a lot of time on performances designed solely to show off how the show was actually in New York and also because it borrowed a lot of that episode's set pieces without finding anything remotely as powerful as the performance of' Bohemian Rhapsody"'. Robert Canning of IGN gave "New York" a "good" grade of 7.5 out of 10 and stated, "while not as epic as Nationals in New York should have been,' New York' was a decent close to an enjoyable season ." The Atlantic's Meghan Brown said the episode was "an uneven end to an uneven season, with a few killer numbers, strange resolutions, and head - scratching plot devices", while her colleague Kevin Fallon opined that the season finale was "no exception" to Glee having "been undeniably frustrating in season two", though "there was still ample reason to tune in and enjoy". </P> <P> Several elements of the episode were highlighted for their implausibility . The arrival of New Directions in New York without having their songs already prepared received widespread condemnation, including from VanDerWerff and the Houston Chronicle's Bobby Hankinson, and led Brown to write, "there is absolutely no universe in which that makes sense . At all . It was so logically unsound that it was distracting ." The notion that Rachel would not know that Cats had closed eleven years before was derided by Brown and Amy Reiter of the Los Angeles Times, while Rachel and Kurt's encounter with "the only friendly security guard in New York City" was mocked by Anthony Benigno of The Faster Times and Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez . Several critics were disappointed that Quinn's ominous mention of plans for New York in "Funeral" came to nothing, including Benigno, who called her actual idea a "cockamamie sabotage plot", though he credited Agron's scene as a "great, wasted job in a great, wasted character", sentiments echoed by VanDerWerff and James Poniewozik of Time . Terron R. Moore of Ology.com gave the episode a "C +", and likened Quinn's dropped plot to Will leaving for Broadway and Rachel disowning her love for Finn: "the fact that none of this happened--and the fact that we know none of it would ever happen--is just another issue I have with the show . I hope that next season, it actually grows a pair ." </P> <P> Finn and Rachel's date in New York was praised, though not everyone was happy with its ending . Gonzalez liked LuPone's short guest spot, and hoped it would be "a lesson to producers in how to deal with guest appearances in the future". Canning said the date had a "sweet comical tone", and thought the episode was "the best the series has done so far with this couple". Reiter felt Rachel was making a "false" choice in her refusal of Finn at the end of the date, and wondered "couldn't she at least have asked him" if he would consider coming to New York . At the competition performance, Poniewozik said of the end of "Pretending", "I may not be that invested in Finn / Rachel, but the startling moment where the audience disappeared in the middle of their kiss made me feel like I was ." Benigno called the moment "awesome", and VanDerWerff was also pleased . </P>

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