Spoiler Warning: Contains details from season 1 finale
XO, Kitty has been renewed for a second season at Netflix, after debuting on the streaming platform at number 2 on the English-language series charts on May 18. Within a few days of its release, the show had totalled 72.1 million hours of viewing, and stayed in the Top 10 for four weeks.
The series is a spin-off of the Netflix To All The Boys film trilogy, based on the books from #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jenny Han. Han served as showrunner for season 1 of XO, Kitty, and co-wrote the pilot episode with Siobhan Vivian. Han also serves as co-showrunner for the Amazon Prime Video television series The Summer I Turned Pretty, adapted from her bestselling novels of the same name.
XO, Kitty centres around Kitty Song Covey, the mischievous little sister in the To All The Boys series, who kicks off the central storyline when she finds the letters written by her sister Lara Jean. Kitty Covey is accepted into the school in Seoul where her mother studied and moves to South Korea at the beginning of the series. Her mother wasn’t the only incentive for the switch up though - she had been in a long distance relationship with her boyfriend Dae, and moved to be closer to him.
How does XO, Kitty season 1 end?
There are a lot of ups and downs as she transitions to her new environment. The ten-episode first season wraps up with Kitty passing her exams but getting expelled from the school for breaking the rules. She also breaks up with her boyfriend Dae because she has feelings for Yuri. Kitty unfortunately doesn’t get a chance to tell Yuri how she feels before the season ends, but she does learn that Min Ho has feelings for her while on the plane back to the US. Dae’s future at KISS is also in jeopardy since a condition for his scholarship is that he maintains the best grades in the year.
The series stars Anna Cathcart as Kitty Song Covey, with Minyeong Choi as Dae, Gia Kim as Yuri, Sang Heon Lee as Min Ho, Anthony Keyvan as Q, Peter Thurnwald as Alex and Yunjin Kim as Jina. John Corbett reprises his role from the To All The Boys series as Kitty’s dad Dan Covey, with Michael K Lee as Professor Lee, Jocelyn Shelfo as Madison and Regan Aliyah as Juliana.
The series is produced by Awesomeness and ACE Entertainment, and distributed on Netflix. Matt Kaplan from ACE Entertainment also serves as an executive producer alongside Han, with the two having previously worked together on the adaptations of To All The Boys I've Loved Before, To All The Boys I've Loved Before: P.S. I Still Love You and To All The Boys: Always and Forever.
XO, Kitty season 1 is available to stream on Netflix.