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
Hate That I Love You catchy and smooth composition. Critics compared "Hate That I Love You"'s composition to Beyoncé Knowles' "Irreplaceable" ("B'Day", 2006). Jackie Hayden from "Hot Press" called "Hate that I Love You" "the prettier twin of 'Irreplaceable'". Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine criticized the song, and called it a lazy carbon copy of "Irreplaceable" and "So Sick" ("In My Own Words", 2006). Sarah McIntyre of RTÉ.ie concluded that the single "brings mournful acoustic guitar strumming, embarrassing harmonising and trite lyrics to a dreary whole." In a review of "Good Girl Gone Bad", Norman Mayers from Prefix Magazine wrote that the songs which were