Review of XO, Kitty Season 3

If you’re new here, and stumbled upon this blog through the mythical powers of the Internet, welcome! I know a lot of visitors to my website are people who randomly come upon this website through search engines like Google, but I also do have a lot of visitors who come back. Regardless: my name is Ashley, and I started this blog in order to keep track of everything I’m coming across in the world.

I feel like a lot of my blog introductions, especially when it comes to movies, have been lamenting on the fact I don’t have a ton of time lately. I used to work as a film critic (which, in fact, was so incredibly underpaid that I now make more off of this blog’s display ads than I ever did publishing anywhere else), and then when I was in graduate school I was writing a lot about film, so I used to watch so many movies.

But now I work an 8-5, come home, and then doom scroll my evenings away instead of watching the movies I used to love so dearly. And recently I realized I want to stop doing that, so I’ve set limits on my phone and am fully prepared to sit back and watch movies and shows again.

XO, Kitty is a show I’ve watched all the way through every time a new season drops. Do I think it’s the best show? Not really, but it makes good entertainment. So I’ve been waiting ever since Season 3 was announced for it to drop. And despite my busy schedule, I watched all of it when it came out over the course of three days.

Let’s get into my review!

Drama is abundant at KISS, especially with big decisions and college season approaching.

Straight off the bat, I would say this season takes a pivot and a bit more of a mature approach, which makes sense considering its characters are about to leave the boundaries of KISS and go off to college for the first time.

While Kitty debates where she wants to go (she does end up deciding in this season where she wants to go to school—spoiler, it’s not in Korea, and it’s something that I thought was interesting and aligns her more with her sister), there’s a lot of relationship drama going on in the background.

Min-ho and her are starting off the season dating, but when things go wrong, especially when it comes to the job his father has thrust upon him, that means there’s going to be friction in their relationship. It doesn’t help that his father pulls her to the side and tells Kitty that she might not be good enough for his son’s ambition.

Add in a cool new potential flame, plus an old friend named Marius who likes to stir up the pot, and that means Kitty is set up to be more jealous than usual when it comes to his relationships. When I mentioned more mature themes earlier, there are some pregnancy scares (not with Kitty), the college and life discussions, as well as casual cheating.

What happened to Q’s character in this season was a bit all over the place for me, but I found that Yuri has some solid development outside of her family’s fall from grace. She needs to learn to be a person outside of her wealth and status, and we finally get to see that more throughout this season.

Despite that, season three is a bit of a rollercoaster. Lots of drama to pass around, new characters, and a side plot involving a character pursuing a career in K-pop. Regardless, it certainly keeps you on your toes throughout each episode.

Overall Thoughts

If we’re going to be honest, this season was my least favorite so far. I found previous seasons to be corny and unrealistic in some ways, but this season just felt like it was trying to do much. And maybe that’s me projecting how I want some escapism elements into this show rather than a critique of the show itself.

It did feel more real in that sense, as these issues do exist among teenagers, and they tried to incorporate more Korean into the show (which some actors actually acted better in Korean—or at least to me).

Regardless, I would be shocked if this didn’t continue into a season four (at the time of typing this, nothing has been announced yet) because of some loose ends here. I think this season opened up some new questions, and they should end this show when the characters are all graduating from KISS and about to head out into the real world.

Go watch it if you’re interested and have the time!

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