What Kate Does doesn't quite know how to write a woman of action who's also in love … many of the show's Kate flashbacks are just plain silly … there have been a lot of pretty dire Kate episodes." Whitney Matheson of "USA Today" said that she "wanted to stab Kate with a hot poker" after watching "What Kate Does". Josh Holloway's supporting performance as a grieving Sawyer was commended by Carabott of IGN, who said that his acting on the dock as he cried and revealed to Kate that he was going to ask Juliet to marry him was "one of Josh
What It Feels Like for a Girl while panning its remix version for "reduc[ing] the song to a mindless trickle of beats without any hints of the verses". Alex Pappademas from "Spin", pointed out that the song "flaunts the sexiest synth shimmer this side of [Aguilera's] 'Genie in a Bottle'". "The Village Voice"s Phil Dellio found the song to be "the perfect answer record to [the novel] "The Virgin Suicides" (where boys indeed stand on the side of the street looking uncomprehendingly towards girls)". While listing "The 100 Greatest Madonna Songs", Louis Virtel from "The Backlot" ranked "What It Feels Like for a Girl" at number 45,