‘XO, Kitty’ Season 3 series review: Love is in the air, for Kitty, Min Ho and the gang at KISS

Devi, Emily and present Kitty…there is thing incredibly bingeable astir watching the heroines of Netflix’s astir addictive shows instrumentality connected life. The beats are undeniably predictable, you tin odor the incoming chaos from a mile away, and you astir apt cannot assistance but rotation your eyes (affectionately, of course) astatine immoderate of the problems the students astatine KISS (Korean Independent School of Seoul) grapple with successful play 3 of XO, Kitty. 

And yet, the amusement manages to entertain and endear successful bully measure. Back astatine KISS for her last year, Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart, much assured and stylish) has overmuch to look guardant to, and has a ‘senior sunset list’ ready. There is the committedness of a caller romance with Min Ho Moon (Sang Heon-Lee) getting person to the Korean broadside of her household she has precocious reconnected with, and of course, the thrill of immoderate amusive and chaos with her present coagulated person radical that includes besties, Q (Anthony Keyvan), Yuri (Gia Kim), and Dae (Choi Minyoung). 

There are respective stumbling blocks successful the mode of Kitty’s perchance cleanable elder year. For one, determination is this changeless unease astir her caller narration with Min Ho. Is she ever going to acceptable into his glamorous world? College decisions loom ample arsenic well, and Kitty besides discovers that she needs to deed the books with a vengeance if she wants to get into her schoolhouse of choice. We’ve hardly seen students astatine KISS overtly interest astir their academics truthful this makes for a refreshing change, adjacent if conscionable for a abbreviated while. 

The latest play though dedicates itself astir wholly to romance and the galore budding and rocky relationships astatine KISS. Q and his fellow Jin (Joshua Lee) present person to contend with the beingness of a antheral from Q’s past, Kitty wrestles with spot issues (despite Min Ho and her being unfastened and communicative for the larger portion of the season), and Dae navigates his feelings for Eunice (Ryu Han-bi), who is connected the cusp of her popstar vocation taking off. Kitty and Min Ho shippers, this is YOUR season. The romance is fun, flirty and feels similar everything fans person been rooting for since play 1. And it helps that some actors sparkle and look comfy on-screen. Where is Sang Heon-Lee’s K-Drama contract, Netflix? 

We’ve seen Kitty germinate from play 1 into idiosyncratic a batch much confident, with a mates (okay, a village) of friends who indulge successful her optimism, matchmaking and mostly chaotic schemes. Watching a ample portion of this proceed from play to play should get exhausting, but Anna Cathcart’s charms much than marque up for it. Do I privation she dealt with her insecurities better? Yes. But this is simply a amusement wherever I cognize precisely however it each unravels, and however the chaos gets sorted out. So wherefore worry? It doesn’t wounded to revel successful this predictability.

Yuri remarks that the person radical has “more play than a mediate schoolhouse accumulation of Wicked,” and portion that’s partially true, play 3 works mostly due to the fact that it eschews immoderate awkwardness lingering from past relationships. Yuri and Kitty successful peculiar marque for a solid, supportive duo, particularly with Kitty helping Yuri navigate her new, riches-to-rags life. 

If Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) waltzed backmost into our hearts with that astonishment cameo successful play 2, here, determination is simply a not-so-surprising 1 from Lara Jean (Lana Condor). I caught myself smiling hard astatine however Lara comes acceptable with her signature cookies and her sympathetic receptor arsenic she tries to assistance Kitty benignant retired her chaos; the wholesome, tropey goodness of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before beingness someway conscionable ne'er fades. Season 3 of XO, Kitty revels successful this, and makes for an eminently watchable binge fest. Movie oregon different season, immoderate is next, we are ready. 

Season 3 of XO Kitty is streaming connected Netflix