For anyone sure about matchmaking and love, Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) faces some big feelings and cliffhangers as a love triangle forms at the end of the Netflix series “XO, Kitty.”
Spinning off the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” movies—based on the books by Jenny Han—Kitty travels across the world to spend her junior year at the Korean Independent School in Seoul on a scholarship. Her late mother Eve Song did the same in her junior year of high school, and Kitty’s long-distance boyfriend Dae (Minyeong Choi) goes to kiss.
After arriving at KISS, Kitty learns that Dae is dating another girl named Yuri Han (Jia Kim). Yuri forces Dae to maintain a fake relationship to distract his parents, who suspect he may have romantic feelings for a girl. The truth eventually comes out, but just as Kitty and Day get together for real, Kitty begins to have feelings for Yuri. Suppressing her feelings for Yuri doesn’t work, so Kitty tells Dee how she feels.
,[Kitty] It feels like his world has been turned upside down. The ups and downs start and never stop. In the end, there are a lot of doors that have closed along the way, but others have come crashing down and she’s feeling a lot of unexpected emotions,” Anna Cathcart told TheWrap. “Even though her feeling really overwhelmed, she’s proud of herself, and she knows that’s part of growth and part of her being strong, and she’s feeling like she’s going to.”
As Kitty heads to the airport to board her plane home, Day lets her go for the last time as she is kicked out of KISS for living in the boys’ dorm. Kitty tells Dee at last that he will always be the first boy she loved.
After ending things with Dee, Kitty runs into Yuri, who is waiting for his love Juliana (Reagan Aliyah) to return as their parents did not approve of their relationship. Kitty hints at her romantic feelings for Yuri, but he keeps interrupting, which happens again at the airport when Juliana arrives. Kitty leaves without telling Yuri about her true feelings.
“That ending was surprising to all of us,” Kim told TheWrap. “When we were even reading the script, we were like, ‘Oh my god, I don’t know what’s going to happen.’ I wish I knew too, but I love that there are so many possibilities.
When Kitty boards her plane to Portland, she doesn’t immediately recognize Min Ho sitting next to her in a hoodie. He left KISS without actually saying goodbye to her, even after they had several arguments that might have turned out to be chemistry. Halfway through the series, Min Ho has a sexual dream about Kitty, but he continues to deny his feelings until the last minute. Just before the plane takes off, he confesses that His Majesty must have fallen in love with Kitty.
“He really left it at that. Didn’t he? I was like ‘Okay.'” Lee told TheWrap. “It’s very interesting to know what’s going to happen next, for sure. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t know that I’ll be in a position where I just hear it from the writers – Jenny [Han] and sasha [Rothchild],
All episodes of ‘XO, Kitty’ are now streaming on Netflix.
