The episode won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
With 0.8 million viewers, this was the most watched episode of the season in the US.
All throughout the series, the soundtrack had traditional Hawaiian chants, sung by choirs with angelic voices. But now, as the dream holiday in the tropical paradise draws to a close, they are supplanted by traditional European hymns and orchestral pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. Although they draw similar emotional responses on some level, this is some of the most traditionally European music there is. The transition can be read as a metaphor both for the end of the holiday and a foreshadowing of the return to normal life in white-dominated American society, but also as a metaphor for the pervasive white imperialism of that society from which not even the wokest of "sympathetic allies" are able to entirely free themselves.
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