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XO, Kitty (2023) — full plot summary

Directed by Jenny Han, XO, Kitty unfolds across — of comedy. This page covers the story beat by beat. For the ending, see the dedicated ending explained page.

● TL;DR

Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love.

The story

XO, Kitty is an American romantic comedy drama television series created by Jenny Han for Netflix that premiered on May 18, 2023. It is a spin-off of the To All the Boys film series, and marks the first Netflix television series to be spun off from a Netflix original film. Han serves as writer and executive producer in addition to being a showrunner. Anna Cathcart reprises the title role as Kitty Song-Covey, a high school student and younger sister of Lara Jean Song-Covey – the central character from the film series. Kitty goes on her own journey to learn about her late mother’s alma mater and experience friendship and romance. The series also stars Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Choi Min-yeong, Anthony Keyvan, and Peter Thurnwald.

Setting & tone

XO, Kitty is set in United States of America and works primarily in English. Tonally it sits in Comedy, Drama, drawing on the conventions of each while filtering them through Jenny Han's direction.

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