two sequels). “XO, Kitty” is busier than the simply plotted “To All the Boys,” for better and for worse, but, fans of the films — or viewers hankering for a cute (and very tame) romcom – should find plenty to enjoy and it’s helmed by Jenny Han, who wrote the books on which “To All the Boys” is based.Kitty, now 17, and with her older sisters off in college (they appear in the show in the form of text messages), is ready for her own adventure.A hopeless romantic, she convinces her father (an under-used John Corbett) to send her to the Korean International School of Seoul– which has the overly on-the-nose acronym “KISS.”It also conveniently happens to be her late mother’s alma mater.
There, she plans to surprise her long-distance boyfriend, Dae (Minyeong Choi), and get her first kiss.Of course, her best-laid plans go awry almost immediately.
Kitty misses her bus from the airport after arriving in Korea. She struggles with the language barrier. She gets hit by a car (it’s moving slowly, so the moment is played for humor rather than alarm).And predictably, Dae isn’t the dreamboat that she thinks he is — because it turns out that he already has a girlfriend, the snobby heiress Yuri (Gia Kim).Kitty is ready to call it quits on her grand plan to study abroad for love.
But she soon gets swept up in discovering her Korean heritage and sniffing out details about her deceased mother’s time at the school.
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