Jack Shepherd of The Independent says that the episode parodies 1980s action films in the storyline with Russian mobsters and their English leader,[1] while Schedeen believes that it parodies "hyper-violent action films" and the John Wick film series.[2] Joe Matar of Den of Geek! writes that the episode emulates Die Hard, which Harmon has done previously in the Community episode "Modern Warfare".[3] Scheeden refers to the building in the episode as a "Russian embassy",[4] while Shepherd calls it an "unnamed, high-secure facility filled with Russian mobsters"[2] and Steve Greene of IndieWire describes it as apparently a "shadowy Eastern European financial consortium."[4] Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club writes, "I don't think the country of the embassy is ever specifically established, which is part of the joke," though notes that the bodyguards are "European."[5]