Nearly 5 years after the discharge of Netflix’s To All of the Boys I’ve Cherished Earlier than (2018) movie, most important character Lara Jean’s (Lana Condor) youthful sister Katherine “Kitty” Tune Covey (Anna Cathcart) launched into an journey and spinoff present of her personal, XO, Kitty.
The Netflix collection was teased within the third To All The Boys I’ve Cherished Earlier than movie, All the time and Endlessly, Lara Jean (2021), when Kitty met Dae, who was portrayed by Jeon Ho Younger within the brief scene, throughout a household journey to Korea.
Introduced in Oct. 2021, eight months after the arrival of the ultimate movie on the streamer, Netflix’s first spinoff collection impressed by a Netflix authentic movie hit screens mid-Might 2023. Identical to her older sister, Kitty acquired herself snarled in some sophisticated love triangles final season. She additionally picked up on an intriguing thriller to resolve due to some issues her mom left behind. Comply with alongside under for what to recollect from the primary season of XO, Kitty forward of the arrival of Season 2 on Netflix Thursday, Jan. 16.
Kitty Will get Into KISS (The Korean Worldwide College of Seoul):
Viewers caught up with an older Kitty Tune Covey lounging within the pool within the opening of the primary episode of Season 1, trying a poorly linked FaceTime along with her long-distance bae Dae (Choi Min-yeong), who occurs to attend the identical college that Kitty’s late mom Eve Tune did when she was a junior in highschool for research overseas. The decision’s connection retains lagging and freezing as Kitty laments not being nearer to her boyfriend, however this adjustments when a cellphone name interrupts the FaceTime, and Kitty finds out that her utility to KISS has been accepted after a last-minute spot opened up. She persuades her father Dan (John Corbett) and stepmother Trina (Sarayu Blue) to let her go together with a PowerPoint presentation.
Yuri And Dae Are Faux-Relationship
After Kitty finds her dorm at KISS following a trip to highschool from none aside from Yuri Han (Gia Kim), daughter of lodge magnate Mr. Han (Lee Hyung-chul) and KISS principal Jina Lim (Yunjin Kim), she will get glammed up for the Again to College dance that night time, the place she plans to shock Dae and kiss him. However she has a nasty shock awaiting her.
L-R: Choi Min-yeong as Dae, Gia Kim as Yuri in ‘XO, Kitty’
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Seems Yuri, whom Dae tutors, blackmails him to be in a pretend relationship along with her by paying his college tuition. Dae’s father is Yuri’s driver, and he’s on scholarship to attend KISS. The scholarship requires that he preserve high grades, and it will come into play later. Yuri needs Dae to pose as her boyfriend in order that her mom thinks it was him she was sneaking round with all summer time, not Julianna (Regan Aliyah), who has not been in contact with Yuri for the reason that housekeeper walked in on them “embracing.”
Yuri is homosexual, however she has not come out to her dad and mom or anybody however her girlfriend. When Julianna will get despatched to Oakham, a college in England, for the semester, Yuri doubles down on the false romance with Dae. Kitty has a way that it’s all pretend when Dae seems on TV after Yuri’s father has to make a public apology, however the reality doesn’t come out till a lot later within the collection.
Kitty Finds a Hospital Bracelet from a Delivery Unit
On the finish of Episode 3, Q (Anthony Keyvan) arms Kitty a hospital bracelet along with her mother’s identify on it, which fell out of an outdated journal of her mom’s. Q acknowledges it as a child bracelet, but it surely’s for a kid born in Korea. Kitty surmises that her mom had a child in Seoul that was not one in every of her sisters, and this sends her into investigative mode.
As she will get right into a routine at KISS, she learns that one in every of her professors, Alex Finnerty (Peter Thurnwald), got here to show at KISS as a result of he wished to know one in every of his dad and mom higher — Professor Lee (Michael Ok. Lee). Kitty jumps to conclusions, considering that Prof. Lee is the thriller man who was along with her mother at KISS. It needs to be famous that Kitty additionally discovered a mixtape with a number of nostalgic songs like “All people Needs To Rule The World” by Tears For Fears, “Linger” by The Cranberries and “Friday, I’m in Love” by The Treatment when sorting by way of her mother’s issues again in Episode 1.
L-R: Anna Cathcart as Kitty Tune Covey, Peter Thurnwald as Alex in ‘XO, Kitty’
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As Kitty and Yuri band collectively after realizing their mothers have been finest mates at KISS, Kitty realizes that Jina was the one who was pregnant, and Eve let Jina use her identify within the hospital. She made this discovery after seeing the hospital from a nature membership hike, organized by Q — who’s one in every of Dae’s roommates and whose full identify is Quincy “Q” Shabazian. She races to the constructing and bribes her approach into the information room after matchmaking a nurse and attendant with a bouquet of flowers, and she or he sees that the infant was adopted by Australian dad and mom. Attending to know Alex, and if viewers observe him at Chuseok, the items begin to come collectively.
Yuri has her personal realization of her half-brother later, however she will get mad at Kitty for not telling her.
Yuri And Kitty Go From Enemies To Mates
Yuri matches Kitty’s meddling along with her personal, and she or he will get in the way in which of a number of moments the place Kitty and Dae attempt to join in regards to the pretend relationship. One key second entails a necklace that Kitty gave Dae when she discovered he misplaced his mother. The necklace was her personal mom’s, and Principal Lim additionally has one that appears similar to it. This turns into obvious when she sees Yuri sporting it at Saturday detention for some KISS college students who get busted for attending a celebration thrown by Dae’s different roommate Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee) at a membership in Seoul. Beneath-age ingesting is an enormous offense in Korea, and by chance many of the college students, bar Kitty, weren’t ingesting alcohol. This celebration was one of many first instances Kitty realized that she may need some heat fuzzy emotions for Yuri.
L-R: Anna Cathcart as Kitty Tune Covey and Gia Kim as Yuri in ‘XO, Kitty’
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Additionally throughout the detention, the pair snuck out to Professor Lee’s home to look by way of yearbooks for his or her moms in images collectively, they usually discover one. Yuri notices that her mother had placed on weight, and Kitty silently makes the connection then that Jina was the one who acquired pregnant. At Min Ho’s celebration, a glance handed between Principal Lim and Professor Lee when Yuri DJ’d a remix of “All people Needs to Rule the World,” which was additionally Kitty’s mom Eve’s favourite music, as may be seen in To All The Boys I’ve Cherished Earlier than in a candy second between Lara Jean and Dr. Dan Covey. It must also be talked about that Kitty drunkenly referred to as Alex after which messaged Professor Lee in regards to the celebration, in order that’s how the KISS management acquired phrase and shut it down.
Florian & Q
Kitty used her expertise as a matchmaker to place Q on Florian’s (Théo Augier) radar in chemistry class. They blossom right into a cute couple, although Florian goes by way of it for the time being as a result of his dad and mom are divorcing and combating over custody of him.
L-R: Anthony Keyvan as Q and Théo Augier as Florian in ‘XO, Kitty’
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Ocean Park’s Grandma & The Finish of 12 months Expertise Present
The ultimate two episodes set the stage for Season 2 in an enormous approach. It needs to be famous that Madison Miller (Jocelyn Shelfo), daughter of Yuri’s father’s enterprise acquisition goal, the person who runs The Miller Group, organizes a college area journey to assist clear up celeb Ocean Park’s grandmother’s backyard, which was flooded by storms and waves. In the course of the glamping journey, Yuri lastly reveals to Kitty that her relationship with Dae was pretend. She additionally helps Dae win Kitty again, for a minimum of a brief period of time.
Madison and Min Ho additionally struck up a romance between the celebration and finish of the present, however as soon as the chase was over for her, she was much less desirous about Min Ho. He shockingly realized that he wished extra! A relationship! Go Min Ho!
However again at KISS, a college expertise present units off a couple of fires, actually and figuratively. Kitty participates within the present to spice up her grade in Professor Lee’s English class. Yuri provided to show her fan dance after her mom made her take classes, however solely throughout a personal second of rehearsal, Kitty and Yuri nearly kiss! This displays a intercourse dream that Kitty had earlier on within the present about Yuri. Whereas we’re at it, Min Ho additionally had a intercourse dream about Kitty! Extra on that later.
L-R Gia Kim as Yuri, Anna Cathcart as Kitty Tune Covey ‘XO, Kitty’
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On the precise present, Prof. Lee performs a martial arts dance, and Kitty has to try to get by way of her Spring Fan Dance routine with a freshly indignant Yuri whose mom simply advised her she has a brother and that she thought Kitty would have already shared the information with Yuri. Kitty journeys over a fireworks machine that Madison needs to make use of for her second efficiency, however the machine malfunctions and sparks fly, in additional methods than one. Kitty’s conventional hanbok outfit catches fireplace, and who ought to come to her rescue? Min Ho! He places the fireplace out, and Dae is correct behind him. This second turns into extra heated when Kitty confesses to Dae that she has emotions for another person. Dae thinks it’s Min Ho and threatens to beat him up, however Kitty then tells Dae it’s Yuri. In the meantime, Jina takes Yuri’s and Alex’s arms and asks Professor Lee to go exterior to allow them to discuss.
A Dishonest Scandal And Airport Chaos
Kitty handed all her finals, which was excellent news, as a result of her scholarship to KISS relied on that. Solely, the supervisor within the boys’ dormitory the place she finds out this information discovers her there, sporting pajamas. Kitty moved in with Q, Dae and Min Ho after by chance touchdown there early within the semester as a result of the identify Tune may be interpreted as masculine. She tried to work it out with one other roommate, however she acquired caught with a gross, slob of a video gamer who wouldn’t clear up after herself. The invention will get Kitty busted and expelled from KISS as a result of there are additionally conduct necessities for her scholarship.
Additionally revealed by the grades postings, Florian acquired the highest spot on the record, threatening Dae’s scholarship. However, as Dae and Min Ho found, Florian cheated, not on Q, however academically, and Q turned him in.
Kitty headed to the airport, the place Dae requested his father to drive him in order that he may battle for her. She broke up with him, saying he was the right first boyfriend. He advised her he would at all times be rooting for her. Subsequent, Kitty runs into Yuri, who’s ready for Julianna to return again after she got here out to her mother, and her mother reversed Julianna’s banishment. Kitty acquired so near confessing her emotions for Yuri, however Julianna’s arrival interrupted that.
L-R: Sang Heon Lee as Min Ho, Anna Cathcart as Kitty Tune Covey, Choi Min-yeong as Dae ‘XO, Kitty’
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Lastly, Kitty acquired on the airplane to move residence, and who needs to be sitting subsequent to her, however Min Ho! Min Ho, who pretended to not converse English within the airport earlier than they flew to KISS at first. Min Ho, who barely blinked when saying goodbye to Kitty. So as to add extra layers to the scenario, Min Ho confessed his love for Kitty too. Then Marina’s “About Love,” which featured in P.S. I Love You (2020), the variation of Jenny Han’s second e book within the To All of the Boys I’ve Cherished Earlier than trilogy, performed and the present reduce to credit.
One last item to notice: Kitty acquired a letter from her mom to Principal Lim — they traded as Kitty returned Jina’s mixtape from Prof. Lee — earlier than she left KISS, and it talked about somebody named Simon. This additional feeds into Kitty’s household historical past and thriller, as famous within the Season 2 logline.