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ReviewNetflix drama review: XO, Kitty season 3 – To All the Boys spin-off picks up after dip
Anna Cathcart’s Kitty Song Covey is back in South Korea for a chaotic parade of adolescent experimentation that improves on last season
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Meddlesome matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) returns for her senior year at the Korean Independent School of Seoul (Kiss) in the third season of XO, Kitty, Netflix’s Korea-set spin-off series from Jenny Han’s hugely successful To All the Boys film franchise.
Chief among Kitty’s goals this year is to define her long-running on-again, off-again “situationship” with wealthy hunk and classmate Min-ho (Sang-heon Lee), but showrunner and chief writer Valentina Garza ensures that finding true love will be no easy task.
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A notable step up in quality from the lacklustre second outing, this new season sees the creators use every excuse in their arsenal to move the action off-campus, whether for a Chuseok celebration, a beach party in the southern port city of Busan, or even a field trip to Lotte World – in an episode that plays more like a theme park commercial than legitimate drama.
There is also a bevy of new characters, and a welcome emphasis on Kitty’s efforts to explore her Korean heritage.
Diehard fans of the franchise will also delight in the inclusion of original film star Lana Condor, who appears in multiple episodes as Lara Jean to impart sisterly wisdom upon her younger sibling Kitty
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