Kitty Song Covey’s days of matchmaking are far from over: Netflix has renewed the YA series XO, Kitty for Season 3, TVLine has learned.
“I’m so excited to head back to Seoul for another season with our incredible cast and crew. If you thought junior year at KISS brought the drama…just wait,” showrunner Jessica O’Toole says in a statement. “I know we left fans on a cliffhanger at the end of Season 2 but I can promise season 3 will be worth the wait, including our first summer episode — not to mention plenty of romance, friendship, adventure…and kissing. Lots of kissing.”
Watch the official announcement video below:
A spinoff of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before movie franchise, the show features Anna Cathcart, reprising her film role of teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey, who travels across the world to attend KISS (Korean Independent School of Seoul), the same institution where her late mother had a scholarship. There, she reunites with her long-distance boyfriend Dae (Minyeong Choi), but their relationship doesn’t last long because he has a fake girlfriend, Yuri (Gia Kim), for whom Kitty eventually develops feelings. Complicating the love triangle is Dae’s best friend, Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee), who falls for Kitty.
In Season 2 — which dropped Jan. 16 — Kitty wrote a letter to Yuri about her feelings for her and locked it away, but the note got out, thanks to Kitty’s treacherous new roommate and Min Ho’s girlfriend, Stella (Audrey Huynh). Adding to the drama, Kitty and Yuri shared a kiss while the latter was still dating Juliana (Regan Aliyah). In the hopes of reuniting with her girlfriend, Yuri, initially, pushed Kitty away as a friend.
Meanwhile, Kitty developed a deeper friendship with Min Ho, who came through for her in the search for her family in South Korea. As the two grew closer, Kitty even admitted to herself that she has feelings for Min Ho. But rather than outright confessing them, the Season 2 finale concluded with Kitty asking Min Ho if she could accompany him on tour during their summer break before she returns to KISS for another year.
Reflecting on that last scene, O’Toole told TVLine that the Kitty/Min Ho exchange “means we’re going to see things from them that we haven’t seen before. It means all kinds of exciting possibilities,” she shared. “But it’s XO, Kitty. It’s K-drama-inspired. There’s always twists and turns. There’s genuine reasons that anything that happens will be complicated. But it’s going to be fun and exciting, whatever it is.”
O’Toole also isn’t ruling out the possibility of the Kitty/Min Ho/Yuri love triangle resurfacing, even though Kitty seemingly chose Min Ho.
“I don’t think that those things are ever over,” she added. That said, “there is duplicity involved when [Yuri and Kitty] kiss, and they hide it. When the foundation is kind of off like that, it’s something that I think Kitty, instinctively, as a good person, knows that she kind of has to move on from. And Yuri doesn’t treat her well afterwards. They’re both doing the right thing, [which] is to step back and repair their friendship after what happened.”
The cast also includes Anthony Keyvan as Q, Peter Thurnwald as Alex, Philippe Lee as Mr. Moon, Jocelyn Shelfo as Madison, Michael K. Lee as Professor Lee, Sasha Bhasin as Praveena and Joshua Lee as Jin.
XO, Kitty fans, hit the comments with your reactions to the news!
good job netflix, finally not cancelling a show before season 3!
Umm what about ginny & gerogia, cobra kai, night agent, the diplomat, sweet magnolias, virgin river just to name few all made it well past 2 seasons
They don´t cancel the series if there is enough viewers. That part Netflix can´t control. Some people can be so dumb.
So happy, I literally just started season 2 for the third time.