10 Things I Hate About You the film, Gil Junger, directed many of the episodes including the pilot while the film's music composer, Richard Gibbs, also returned to do the show's music. The series was adapted and produced by Carter Covington. The show premiered on July 7, 2009, and lasted 20 episodes. The film is a retelling of William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew" in an American high school setting. Screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith also wrote the script for "She's the Man" (2006), a retelling of Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night" set in an American college. Kat and Bianca share the same names
7 Things most about her ex, with the seventh item being her frustration that despite his flaws, he makes her love him. Ben Ratliff of "The New York Times" noted that the list actually "runs to 8 to 11 things, depending on how you parse it". Henry Freedland of "Paste" magazine compared it to a similar list featured as a poem in the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You". In one verse, Cyrus asks for a sincere apology and states, "If you text it, I'll delete it", which Molly Lambert of "The New York Times" said "perfectly captur[es] our confusing