Editor’s Observe: The next accommodates main spoilers for XO, Kitty Season 2.
Kitty Tune Covey (Anna Cathcart) went to Ok.I.S.S. with two issues in thoughts: to observe her coronary heart, and to study extra about her mother’s previous as a scholar there. Since then, XO, Kitty has centered on each of those storylines. Season 2 expands on every of them, with Kitty’s love life turning into much more difficult and her investigation into her mother’s previous finally resulting in the reveal of some main household secrets and techniques.
There may be one main change in Season 2, although, and that’s the addition of XO, Kitty‘s new villain, Stella (Audrey Huynh). Stella is first launched as Kitty’s new roommate, a sheltered lady from Ohio who’s excited to department out at Ok.I.S.S. By the top of the Season 2 premiere, although, it’s revealed that Stella shouldn’t be who she says she is. Her actual title is Esther, and he or she’s there to “get what’s hers.” Stella slowly wreaks a substantial amount of havoc all through the season, and her motives finally get revealed on the finish. In the end, Stella is a unbelievable villain, and he or she is precisely what XO, Kitty wanted.
Stella’s Sabotage Ramps Up the Stakes in ‘XO, Kitty’ Season 2
In Season 1 of XO, Kitty, the best stakes had been all emotional. The main target was totally on Kitty’s difficult romantic connections with Dae (Choi Min-young), Yuri (Gia Kim), and Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee). There was additionally the problem of Kitty’s search into her mother’s previous and the chance of her standing at Ok.I.S.S. after it was revealed that she had been secretly dwelling within the boys’ dorm. This season brings in real-life stakes, although, as Stella secretly works to take down Min Ho’s father, Moon (Philippe Lee).
Whereas Season 2 of XO, Kitty makes it clear all through that Stella shouldn’t be who she claims to be, her intentions and her motives should not revealed till afterward. This thriller hangs over the season, hitting a turning level when the buddy group takes a ski journey to Min Ho’s father’s cabin for Seollal. Whereas on the journey, Stella brings Kitty’s love letter to Yuri and leaks it to the remainder of the group. Stella additionally reveals an curiosity in staying again whereas everybody else goes snowboarding. Then Jin (Joshua Hyunho Lee) reveals that she had been snooping round within the drawers of Moon’s workplace, clearly on the lookout for one thing.
After Kitty realizes that Stella leaked her letter, Stella’s motives and supreme plan are nonetheless stored secret. Shortly after, an Instagram account referred to as MoonLeaks pops up. The nameless account exposes Moon for beforehand treating his workers and actuality present contestants badly — and for sporting hair plugs. Kitty items the main points collectively, though it takes Min Ho longer to simply accept the reality: Stella is the one behind MoonLeaks, and he or she’s been utilizing Min Ho this entire time simply to get to Moon.
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Stella’s Backstory Makes Her a Compelling Villain in ‘XO, Kitty’ Season 2
It could have been straightforward for XO, Kitty to middle Kitty in Stella’s villain arc, and to pit them towards one another over Min Ho. As a substitute, although, the present does one thing way more fascinating. Kitty realizes that, like Min Ho, she’s only a pawn in Stella’s revenge scheme. Stella leaked Kitty’s letter to distract the remainder of the group in order that she might look by way of Moon’s paperwork. It seems that Stella solely went to Ok.I.S.S. within the first place to hold out a posh revenge scheme towards Moon.
Early within the season, Moon tells Min Ho that the important thing to a profitable actuality present is having deliberately unhealthy contestants on the present to humiliate them for higher content material. This is only one of many ways in which Moon embarrasses and hurts the sentiments of the contestants on his reveals. A number of years earlier than, Stella — recognized again then as Esther — competed on considered one of Moon’s reveals. Whereas he preferred her voice, he did not permit her to get any additional within the competitors than that as a result of he mentioned that she did not have the look. Esther fell aside proper then, which rapidly turned her right into a humiliating meme.
Stella’s strategies of finishing up revenge are actually misguided and dangerous to Kitty and Min Ho, however her motivation comes from an actual place. Whereas attempting to observe her dream, she was publicly shamed for her look, and he or she needed to reinvent herself within the wake of it. Stella is a posh villain who’s pushed by actual damage and disgrace after the best way that Moon handled her on stay tv, and there’s nothing that she is not keen to threat to get revenge.
A Shared Villain Unites the Different Characters in ‘XO, Kitty’ Season 2
After Kitty’s letter is uncovered within the fourth episode of Season 2, “Kiss and Inform,” her buddy group explodes into chaos. Juliana (Regan Aliyah) is indignant with Yuri and Kitty, Yuri is avoiding Kitty, after which Dae quickly ends his friendship with Min Ho after studying about his love confession to Kitty. Having a clearly-defined villain brings the remainder of the characters again collectively, attributable to their mutual dislike of Stella. For instance, inside simply two episodes, Juliana strikes previous her anger in direction of Kitty, they usually have a pleasant dialog about their shared points with Stella as Peter (Noah Centineo) appears on, confused.
Stella’s excessive strategies, like recording Min Ho’s father and sabotaging all of her rivals within the expertise contest, make the remainder of the drama look a lot smaller compared. As such, Min Ho and Dae rapidly make-up, and Kitty, Yuri, and Juliana are capable of transfer previous the worst of their love triangle drama. Eunice and Dae forgive one another very quickly after their combat. Juliana, Q (Anthony Keyvan), Kitty, Yuri, and Jin all step in as Dae’s backup dancers for the competition. Within the wake of Stella’s revenge plot, the chums all unite collectively to work in direction of a shared purpose, leading to a heartfelt Season 2 finale.
XO, Kitty Season 2 is obtainable to stream on Netflix.
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- Launch Date
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Could 18, 2023
- Solid
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Anna Cathcart
, Sang Heon Lee
, Choi Min-young
, Anthony Keyvan
, Gia Kim
, Peter Thurnwald
, Regan Aliya - Seasons
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2
- Franchise(s)
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To All of the Boys
- Showrunner
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Jenny Han
