'XO, Kitty' Season 3 Review
- Connor Petrey
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Season Three.
Aired On: Netflix.
Release Date: 04/02/26.
Genre: Comedy. Drama. Romance.
The Verdict: A Maybe
At this point XO, Kitty is the definition of a guilty pleasure… I remember the fond memories of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and then the disappointment of the concluding chapters of the trilogy and now this.
It’s hard to believe we’re three seasons into XO, Kitty because as another season breezes by it feels like we’re walking into circles. This season follows Kitty (Anna Cathcart) right where the last season concluded - ready to declare her love to Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee), but things got haywire and her mind wanders with a call from her sister to come home for the summer. Naturally this being the first episode and having to go home for the summer, you’d expect maybe we’d get some time in the U.S. before coming back to Korea, but nope we have a big flash forward and we’re back for another school year with no reason for going home.
The season shows the struggle for Kitty and Min Ho to establish a relationship with jealousy and paranoia consuming the prospect of them being together. And we go in circles with this for all eight episodes. The show continues to have an issue managing its massive ensemble of supporting characters, a decision made in the first season that had seemingly gotten larger with each new outing. With only thirty minute episodes with an average of 8 episodes per season, there's just not enough time to fully invest in any other their non-significant dilemmas.
Every character, including Kitty within the confinements of this series lack depth and instead showcase worthless soap opera melodrama, with no real stakes behind anything at the school. Suddenly poor? Don’t worry, sell all your clothes. Struggling through a breakup? Don’t worry someone from across the world will show up to give you a pep talk. When disaster suddenly makes things better for the individual with one clever idea… it’s almost like we’re in Emily in Paris with the constant fixes.
I’ll stand by that the performances of everyone involved is the definition of “fine” with a fluent and sometimes distracting transition between English and Korean throughout the entire series. It’s heavy on the drama, lacking in the comedy and just at this point getting repetitive. Diehard fans of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before may find solace in this extended spinoff, but truth be told, it’s time may be coming to a close as its plot is clearly running out of legroom.
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