Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, seeking back on the present a 10 years soon after it went off the air, argued Bradshaw was "the unacknowledged first female anti-hero on television," who commenced as a "happy, curious explorer, out companionably smoking with modellizers," but from the second period on she "spun out, becoming nervous, obsessive, and, regardless of her charm, wildly self-centered.