Ah to be young… and quirky… and have every boy and girl in your vicinity find themselves falling, a little or a lot, in love with you. This is the world of Kitty Song Covey, the heroine of Netflix’s “XOKitty,” a spinoff series of the TATBILB trilogy.
It’s often hard to stick the landing during the second season of a hit show, and “XOKitty” season 2 definitely wobbles. There are an unwieldy number of new central characters (Eunice! Mr. Moon! Stella! Praveena!), as well as the inexplicable disappearance of a few formerly central ones (was Yunji Kim simply unavailable to reprise her role as Principal Jina Lim?). As a result, some storyline are short-changed, like Queen Bee Yuri’s, while others seem to take over, like new girl Stella’s turn into arch-villainy.
However, “XOKitty” keeps its core charms: its K-drama-inspired flourishes, its casual queerness, its resistance to pigeonholing Kitty into having a clear “endgame” love interest, and its delicious sweetn…
