At a maximum 30 minutes each, each action-packed episode flies by. As a spin-off, XO, Kitty is true little sister material, where in lieu of the Jane Austen-caliber romance and longing sexual tension of To All the Boys, Kitty delivers the wholesome hijinks and misadventures of the Disney Channel as she awaits her first kiss. Cathcart first played Kitty in 2018 as the spunky, bespectacled 11-year-old little sister to main character Lara Jane (Lana Condor). Lighthearted and entertaining, XO, Kitty is the 10-episode spin-off of Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, the film adaptation of Jenny Han’s bestselling novels of the same name. Got all that? We’re only 24 minutes in, and the plot only gets more convoluted from here. Yuri’s got her own secret, too: she’s been paying Dae to be her boyfriend, using their fake relationship to cover up her real love for a girl named Juliana. Yuri’s mother, Jin (Yunjin Kim), meanwhile, is the principal of Kiss, and for reasons unknown chooses to lie about having been friends with Kitty’s mother, despite a 20-year-old photograph featuring the two of them together. And throughout his relationship with Kitty, Dae’s also been lying about his family’s economic status: he’s struggling to afford tuition, and his father is Yuri’s family driver.

Kitty soon finds out that Yuri, the teen hotel heiress who gives her a ride on their first day of school, is actually Dae’s girlfriend.

It’s also the current school of her long-distance boyfriend, Dae (Minyeong Choi), and she’s just enrolled without telling him – an unannounced romantic gesture that, to no adult viewer’s surprise, ends in utter disaster.

It starts with our 16-year-old biracial Korean American protagonist Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) hopping a plane from her home in Portland to the Korean Independent School of Seoul, or Kiss, her late mother’s alma mater. The first episode of the new Netflix romcom XO, Kitty runs through its exposition like a sprint.

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