 Club" said that he and Michele were "both agreeable and a little desperate for an outlet" in the pilot episode.Commenting on the fifth episode of the first season, Eric Goldman of "IGN" wrote, "We got to see a bit of a darker side to Finn [...] it's good to see this, because up until now, Finn's been a bit too strait-laced to totally invest in".In the second season's eighth episode, "Furt", Tim Stack of "Entertainment Weekly" noted "It's been a while since we've gotten some Finn focus, and I think I just missed Cory Monteith.