Review of XO, Kitty Season 2

If you’re new here and found this blog through the mysterious powers of the Internet, welcome! My name is Ashley, and I’m a dedicated reader and movie watcher who thought to turn this website into a little digital archive of sorts.

I was watching and reading so much that I wanted to keep track of it all, so I began blogging as a way to keep these books as memories somewhat forever.

That said, I recently fell into a period of unemployment, and this blog was a solace for me. Not only was it a way to make a little bit of money when there was nothing else coming my way really, but I found, after getting my finances in order, that I enjoyed sitting down to write blog posts when I had nothing else to do in my day.

If you like this review in the end, feel free to click around. This is my digital home, so I’m happy to have you here. Back when the first season of XO, Kitty came out, I watched it immediately in one day.

I wanted to watch it because when I was in high school, I studied abroad on a prestigious scholarship in Korea. I thought that the show would give me some throwback vibes to when I was a high schooler in Korea, but it kind of just reminded me of a trope-y young adult novel. Which is fine, but not what I expected.

So when I heard that season two was coming out, I was prepared to do something similar. Granted, I thought I would be employed right now and didn’t want to binge watch in a day, but because I am what I dubbed funemployed, I thought I might as well give myself this simple joy in-between applying to jobs.

Let’s get into the review of season two! I don’t want to ramble too much in the introduction, I know these can get pretty long and boring.

Following the events of season one, Kitty continues her love triangles, while more drama stirs up in the background

We start up season two where we left off in season one. Kitty comes back to Seoul, to her school there, with a lot of fresh drama brewed up right at the end of season one. Despite requesting a single room, she comes in to find out that Juliana, Yuri’s girlfriend, Yuri, and a new girl named Stella are all in her room.

Kitty then immediately has to confront the fact she still has a crush on Yuri, which leads to some bigger problems down the road. A lot of this season is Kitty trying to figure out what she really wants and how to get it, especially when she meets a Desi American girl named Praveena.

Praveena is cool, chic, and queer. She’s confident and assured, unlike Kitty. And maybe that’s why Kitty is attracted to her, and the two go on dates, but Kitty still can’t get over Yuri, especially when something goes down about halfway through the season.

There are a lot of side plots packed into this season as well. Q, who is feuding with another male classmate on the track team, finds himself hooking up with said classmate. Dae is also trying to get over Kitty on the side, and is exploring other options throughout the school. Min Ho begins dating Stella, then finds friction with his dead.

We also learn that Kitty’s new roommate Stella has some secrets, and despite her nice girl act, everyone slowly begins suspecting her of being up to something.

While all of these side plots are going down, Kitty is still continuing her main adventure of trying to figure out more about her mother. This leads her not only to the Korean countryside, but also questioning what she knows is true after all of this time.

Lots of drama overall in this season, and some of the same thematic notes that we see in the first season. This season feels a lot shorter than the first one because of the eight thirty minute episodes, but I thought the length was honestly kind of fine. It’s a bit too dramatic for me to keep going beyond eight episodes.

Overall Thoughts

At first, I didn’t like this season. I thought the first few episodes were a mess and all over the place, but by the time we get to episode five, it started finding its footing. Before that, I thought it was just pretty jumbled and chaotic.

I really liked the LGBTQ+ focus this season has. Picking up where it was in the last season, I found that characters like Dae were really kind of shoved to the side at times. Kitty is still the main and central character, that’s for sure, but Min Ho had more focus, as well as Yuri/Juliana.

I did also wish we saw more of Praveena. She was one of the standout characters and was so cool, and if Kitty was less focused on Yuri, I would have been chill seeing these two getting to know each other more. The ending was also kind of mid to me, but so be it.

I’ll still watch a season three if that ends up happening, but I thought season one was stronger than this one, despite me not really liking season one. This is feeling like brain rot television for me, which is totally fine. Sometimes we need shows like these, but if I want to watch a show about Korea, I’ll go to a Korean show instead.

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