For all of the brand-new chaos Kitty brings to KISS within the sophomore season of Netflix’s XO, Kitty, issues led to a extra mellow means in comparison with the finale of Season 1. Showrunner Jessica O’Toole, who additionally labored with Jenny Han on Season 3 of The Summer season I Turned Fairly, chalked it as much as timing.
Season 2 of the To All The Boys I’ve Beloved Earlier than spinoff sequence watched Anna Catchcart’s important character and youngest Tune Covey sister return to the Korean Worldwide Faculty fo Seoul to complete out her yr learning overseas there and to trace down the mysterious Simon talked about in her mom’s letter. In fact, the love triange dynamics got here again with a drive this season as nicely as a result of, regardless of her finest efforts, Kitty nonetheless had emotions for Yuri (Gia Kim) and Min Ho’s heart-on-his-sleeve confession to her on the finish of Season 1 is behind her thoughts too.
Attempt as she would possibly to recover from Yuri by following her older sister Lara Jean’s (Lana Condor) recommendation and writing a letter to get all her emotions out, Kitty’s letter was uncovered to their complete pal group and dragging Kitty and Yuri’s kiss into the open, main Julianna and Yuri to interrupt up.
“I simply needed to honor what would really feel like would actually occur, and never simply consider the characters as puzzle items or items of a plot, as a result of I by no means consider characters that means,” O’Toole informed Deadline. “[Kitty and Yuri] began off in such a — with all the things that occurred on the finish of Season 1 — Yuri was in an actual relationship with Juliana. I needed to respect that. I didn’t need it to be elements of a love triangle and the way we handled that. I actually felt like they have been actual. I did really feel like even Kitty knew when she kissed Yuri, “this isn’t gonna go [well],” as a result of there was a betrayal, after which mendacity, and she or he had began to get to know Juliana. Juliana doesn’t deserve that.”
This left Yuri, Kitty and Julianna adrift for a bit, but in addition locked in a pressure of types as a result of Kitty and Julianna lived collectively and Yuri nonetheless needed to be buddies with Kitty.
“It didn’t really feel like actually it might work out as a result of it began out incorrect, just like the Min Ho confessing his love proper after [Kitty and Dae broke up],” O’Toole continued. “That’s the entire thing about timing, whenever you’re in relationships, it does matter, and whenever you’re that age, you’re usually doing issues on the incorrect time.”
Minyeong Choi as Dae Heon Kim in ‘XO, Kitty’
O’Toole couldn’t say an excessive amount of concerning the significance of these To All of the Boys I’ve Beloved Earlier than callbacks going down principally with Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee’), however she did acknowledge the thrill round that attainable match for Kitty. Sang Heon Lee’s playboy and Dae’s (Minyeong Choi) finest pal needed nothing to do with Kitty originally of Season 1 earlier than falling head over heels for her.
“I can’t be spoilering issues, however Kitty is on a journey of how she identifies and exploring her emotions for Yuri, for Min Ho, her previous with Dae, all of that stuff. Clearly Min Ho’s the character that everybody’s enthusiastic about and that they’ve had this very attention-grabbing journey collectively, which may be very enemies to lovers and all of the Ok-drama tropes which might be so enjoyable to play with,” she stated. “But additionally their chemistry collectively is great, and it feels very actual. What I like about what we do with them this season is how we see their friendship. You see him settle for her at face worth that she’s not in the identical place, and also you see him deal with that in a extremely mature means the place they are often buddies, and that’s what was most enjoyable about it for me.”
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Each Cathcart and Lee commented on their characters’ ultimate scene collectively, one which strikes a precarious stability of hope and leaving the viewers wanting extra for his or her potential love story. Cathcart had enjoyable with all the hints and longing stares she shared with Lee, who felt it was ending for them in that second.
“No matter occurred on that final second between Kitty and Min Ho was in all probability the perfect output as a result of they each simply talked about what they’re going by and what they is likely to be doing,” he informed Deadline. “So possibly, it’s factor that they’re not dashing into issues. A kiss actually is kind of a little bit of a rush, so possibly gradual it down a bit bit.”
L-R: Sang Heon Lee as Min Ho Moon and Anna Cathcart ‘XO, Kitty’
Min Ho additionally helped Kitty reconnect her grandmother (who’s portrayed by Jenny Han’s mother Ae Yon Han) and her grandmother’s sister Quickly Ja (Hye Solar Jung) by letters from her mother to the thriller man Simon, who turned out to be Eve’s cousin. In an act of real love, he loaned her his personal jet to fly Kitty’s eldest sister Margot (Janel Parrish) and Kitty’s Halmoni to Bukjeon to reunite along with her older sister after their decades-old feud.
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“We have been all crying, and so they have been actually crying. Jenny’s mother was superb. It was like an actual second for all of us on set watch this, and for Anna and Janel. I like that story and I feel there’s, there’s infinite locations you may go along with that. I imply, she will’t preserve discovering secret kin,” O’Toole stated. “However I’m a sucker for household secrets and techniques. I additionally assume it’s actually attention-grabbing that we live on this time the place you may’t actually have household secrets and techniques anymore, essentially as a result of all the things’s on-line. The concept these individuals who [had] a type of conflicts that didn’t must get as massive because it was, a misunderstanding, after which, simply because it was a very long time in the past, and so they went their separate methods, and so they didn’t have Fb, they fully misplaced contact with one another. And I like the way it displays the theme of sisterhood that that has been within the franchise from the start.”
L-R: Hojo Shin as Jiwon, Jung Hye-sun as Quickly Ja, Anna Cathcart as Kitty Tune Covey in ‘XO, Kitty’
As for Season 3 hopes, O’Toole sees loads of prospects with the present’s rising ensemble and the coming-of-age facet of the YA Ok-drama.
“I’d be thrilled to maintain going with these characters and the world. I’ve been considering principally of extra what we will see in Korea nonetheless. There’s a complete bunch extra to Korea than simply Seoul,” she stated. “And we’ve received all these characters who’ve households. I do love the thought with nonetheless many seasons — knocking on issues — that we’re fortunate sufficient to get, of increasing the world and going in additional depth with the characters maturing. That’s what’s so nice about coming of age exhibits is that the present will get to develop up together with the characters.”