After the drama and chaos of last season, Kitty Song Covey is back to KISS for another year of fun, adventures and relationships, along with focusing her energy on learning more about her mother’s time at the prestigious Seoul school. What awaits Kitty for this new semester?
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XO Kitty Season 2 Netflix Cast
Anna Cathcart, Choi Min-yeong, Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Anthony Keyvan, Sasha Bhasin, Audrey Huynh, Ryu Han-bi, Joshua Hyunho Lee, Regan Aliyah, Peter Thurnwald, Philippe Lee
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XO Kitty Season 2 Created By
Jenny Han
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XO Kitty Season 2 Directors
Katina Medina Mora, Steven Tsuchida, Anna Mastro, Sherwin Shilati
The season has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 30 minutes. The series is based on the characters by Jenny Han and is a spin-off of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
XO Kitty Season 2 Review
The problem with shows such as these is that they take themselves too seriously. XO Kitty is a fine, forgettable watch that could’ve stopped existing after the first season and we would’ve been none the wiser. However, the series is back with more banal conversations this season about issues that don’t exactly exist other than in our nosy protagonist’s head and characters who have little to no depth whatsoever and don’t feel like real people.
Each other these characters feels unreal and is thoroughly annoying, with no hint of maturing after the devastation of the first season. Granted, I have moved on from my high school phase years ago and I might not be a Gen Alpha or whatever it is anymore, but even for entertainment purposes the series feels grating and annoying, leaving you frustrated by kids doing things before thinking for every big and small event in their lives.’
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Feelings and moods shift from one moment to another in the blink of an eye. This means that every episode of this rom-com is extremely fast but it also means there are hardly any true feelings being sifted through and half of the time we don’t understand why someone would make the decisions that they do. At one moment they haet someone and in the other they love them, leaving us questioning why they are flip-flopping from one thing to another. It makes these characters feel shallow and ingenuine and their struggles unfamiliar.
In this season, Kitty sifts through her bisexual feelings and decides to date better while also focusing on her mother’s past. The storylines are fine and I guess if we didn’t have 20 things happening at the same time things would’ve even been impactful in a way. However, XO Kitty Season 2 feels like a chaotic storm that moves on to the next thing before the previous one is even over.
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That being said, I did enjoy the teenage angst and the confused, lingering feelings that we have also had for our exes. That’s sweet and even endearing in a way. As Kitty and the rest of her group figure out their feelings, I couldn’t help but feel a bit nostalgic. But I also think that the storyline is rather convenient and childish, in that literally everyone around Kitty seems to be in love with her. It’s just so odd to see everyone that she comes in touch with seem to be pulled into her orbit although we don’t get why. Sure, she’s charming and everything, but is that enough for everyone to throng to her?
There are a few funny moments peppered in that are entertaining as heck but the shameless expositional dialogue gets on your nerves. It breaks every little thing down that takes away from the drama and the world-building and takes you out of the experience thoroughly. Th performances are also quite lacklustre; considering how shallow the characters are written, the actors can’t bring out the emotions of these teens in different crises, making us feel rather unsatisfied by the end of it.
Final Thoughts
XO Kitty Season 2 might be the perfect binge-watch for those of you who love to watch something bingeable and forgettable because this is exactly what the series is. It’s really shallow and annoying and the characters aren’t fleshed out well enough. Plus, the pacing goes at break-neck speeds and will give you whiplash. At the end of the day, though, it’s definitely a juicy binge-fest, regardless of how forgettable it is.
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