The episode received mostly positive reviews. Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode an A-, writing that "The structure of 'White Rabbit' is kind of half-formed, in a way that strikes me as very similar to the structure of 'Tabula Rasa', but I think that feeling of everything having been tossed together at the last minute suits the episode in a way it didn’t the earlier one."