If you’ve been missing the romantic charms of Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, the streaming giant has just the thing to quell those cravings. The new 10 part series XO, Kitty is now streaming on Netflix..
A spin-off from To All the Boy’s I’ve Loved Before, XO, Kitty puts the focus on Kitty (Anna Cathcart), little sister to OG protagonist Lara Jane (Lana Condor), as she heads from Seattle to South Korea to study at the prestigious Korean Independent School of Seoul (heck of an anagram, that). Her mother also studied there and was BFFs with the now-principal, but Kitty has a more personal motive for the move: her long-distance boyfriend, Dae (Minyeong Choi) is a student, and she’s intent on surprising him.
Of course, it’s Kitty that gets surprised. Dae has a girlfriend, Yuri (Gia Kim), the daughter of principal Jin (Yunjin Kim), who claims to have no memory of Kitty’s mother. Disaster! But Kitty quickly twigs that Yuri is actually in love with Juliana (Regan Aliyah) and, as they tend to in soapy teen relationship dramedies, things only get more complicated from there.
If you’re a fan of the wildly popular To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, you should have a fair idea of what to expect here: high emotional stakes, love triangles and mix-ups pitched at an almost Shakespearean level, a scattering of heard-earned life lessons, and a scene-stealing supporting cast. In XO, Kitty the cast stand-outs include Sang Heon Lee as Dae’s flamboyant best friend, Min Ho, and Anthony Keyvan as Q, Kitty’s deathlessly supportive gay BFF, who’s having his own romance dramas with classmate Florian (Théo Augier).
If we try to sketch out all the tangled relationships in XO, Kitty, we’ll be here all night. And that’s time better spent digging into all this drama instead.
