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 and released it. Thuderpuss tried to convince the record label executives but failed and the remix was canceled. Upon release, the song received general acclaim from music critics. Rikky Rooksby wrote in his book, "The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna", that "What It Feels Like for a Girl" was the best track on "Music". Author Lucy O'Brien described the song as having a "beautifully executed sense of anger" in her biography, "". Likening it to Madonna's 1989 single "Express Yourself", O'Brien called it a "femme-pop" song. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine picked it as one of the album's highlights,