KISS is the third episode of Season 1 of the Netflix series XO, Kitty and the third episode overall. It aired on May 18, 2023.
Synopsis[]
Dae experiences conflicting emotions over a sudden change of plans as Kitty deals with her own tangled feelings and an unfortunate new nickname.
Plot[]
At Dae’s house, the boy in question is deliberating about signing the NDA for Yuri’s father. Since he assumes that the real Dae and Yuri were in a relationship, Sung-jin had asked Dae to sign the NDA to protect his daughter. Dae’s sister is excited to learn about the relationship,but his father worries that Dae has been caught up in something serious now that he’s going viral online.
Dae later learns that his sister is being bullied in school because of their financial status and promises to buy her new shoes with the money he makes with his internship. That morning, Kitty gets ready for school and Q starts getting along with her. Minho is still cold towards her but Dae stops him from reporting Kitty to the dorm warden. Dae tries to have a conversation with Kitty about dating Yuri and how he pretended to be rich for all these years.
Dae claims that he was worried Kitty would not be with him if she knew he was poor but their conversation is interrupted when Q and Minho drag Dae to class. Dae promises to explain everything to Kitty. Meanwhile, Yuri texts Juliana telling her how much she missed her. In a flashback, Yuri’s maid finds her when she was about to make out with Juliana.
Back to the present, there are paparazzi outside K.I.S.S, trying to capture Yuri and Dae together. Dae gives her the contract he signed and they pretend to walk hand in hand. Dae asks Yuri if he can tell Kitty that they were fake-dating. She warns him about the information going public but then tells him that she was dating Juliana and trying to keep that a secret from her parents.
Yuri breaks down because she’s missing her girlfriend but Dae helps her avoid the paps when he takes Yuri on a piggyback ride. Kitty spots them together and is convinced that Dae is fake dating Yuri. The people at school call Kitty the ‘Portland Stalker’ but she tries to ignore the negative comments.
Yuri asks Dae to write her summer homework, so Dae leaves the essay with Yuri and mentions how he cannot wait to stop fake-dating her. Just then, Juliana sneaks into the school and tells Yuri that she’s being transferred because they were caught. Yuri is sorry for her but Juliana asks Yuri to go through the year and promises to come back to K.I.S.S soon.
The two girls make out in the janitor’s room while Yuri leaves for class. Professor Lee meets Jin to tell her that he suspects Yuri had asked Dae to write her daughter's summer homework essay. Jina sides with her daughter and asks Professor Lee to prove that Dae had written the essay for her.
Elsewhere, Professor Alex helps Kitty reach her class and greets Professor Lee, who is also on his way to the same class. Professor Lee is curt with Alex leaving him confused about his attitude.
Kitty notices Yuri and Dae sitting together in class and is further pissed. After class, Professor Lee tells Kitty that she was way below her peers in terms of grades and needed to get tutored. During the lunch break, Kitty is singled out by all the other cliques which forces her to sit with Q and his athlete friend Blake.
Kitty tells Q that she thinks Dae’s relationship with Yuri is fake but he thinks that Dae is confused because he’s seeing Kitty in person after so long. Kitty can see that Dae is miserable around Yuri and is sure that she’ll get Dae to confess. Q is distracted by a French EXPAT student, Florian, and Kitty puts on her matchmaking shoes to get them two to date.
Yuri then gets called into Jina’s office and is asked to submit her credit card for cheating on her summer homework. Yuri strikes a deal with her mother which suggests that she’ll have permission to go to a DJ Festival in Iceland if Yuri keeps her behaviour in check.
Kitty makes it to Chemistry class after lunch and finds herself seated next to Min Ho.
The two argue, which ends with Kitty telling the entire class that Minho used to be in a diaper commercial as a child. Minho is embarrassed after the class breaks into laughter which leads to Professor Alex allowing the students to change their lab partners. Kitty then somehow manages to get Florian to sit with Q.
After class, Kitty goes to the library and is introduced to Dae who will be her tutor. She finds photos of her mother and hopes to find her place at the school as well. Eunice tells Yuri that Kitty had outed Min Ho for being in the commercial. Yuri then wonders how Kitty knew something so personal, while Eunice blames Dae. Yuri is worried and interrupts Dae and Kitty at the library.
Just as Dae tries to confess that his relationship with Yuri is fake, Yuri shows up. She tells Dae that Kitty has revealed Min Ho’s secret to the entire school. Yuri secretly warns Dae about the NDA and leaves. Dae is confused and shocked and decides to end things with Kitty telling her that his relationship with Yuri was real.
Dae gives Kitty back her necklace and leaves her at the library. That night, Q tells Kitty that her ploy worked and that Florian has followed him on social media.
A hospital tag falls out of Kitty’s mother’s photobook. She is shocked to discover that her mother, had a child in South Korea in 1993, way before she, Margot or Laura Jean were even born.
Title and Background[]
- The episode's title is an acronym for keep it short & simple.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Anna Cathcart as Kitty Covey
- Choi Min-young as Dae Heon Kim[1]
- Anthony Keyvan as Q Shabazian[1][2]
- Gia Kim as Yuri Han[1][2]
- Sang Heon Lee as Min Ho[1][2]
- Peter Thurnwald as Alex Finnerty [1]
- Regan Aliyah as Juliana[1][2]
Guest Starring[]
- Jocelyn Shelfo as Madison Miller
- Yunjin Kim as Jina Lim
- Théo Augier as Florian
- Michael K. Lee as Professor Lee
Co-Starring[]
- Ryu Han-bi as Eunice
- Sunny Oh as Mihee
- Lee Sung-wook as Mr. Kim
- Tobias J. Yang as Altan
- Aaron Chan Meinero as Blake
- Dongsook as Dennis The Bearded Dragon
- Gyurin Kim as Dennis' Handler
- Jung Ji Yoon as Librarian
- Doyeon Ko as Bora Kim
- Mabel as Random Student 1
- Yesol Kim as Korean-American Student
- Hayley Leah Campbell as Random Student #2
Gallery[]
Promotional stills[]
Songs featured[3][]
- Venom – Stray Kids
- Maniac – Stray Kids
- Don’t Freak – The Aces
- I Can’t Stop Me – Twice
- Be with You – Hi-Five
- Oh Yeah – CSCS
Trivia[]
- While talking with her new friend Q Shabazian, Kitty confirms in this episode that her sister Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky are still going strong after the events of the third and final To All the Boys film, To All the Boys: Always and Forever.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Netflix's To All the Boys Spinoff Series XO, Kitty Reveals Full Cast — First Look
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 XO, Kitty Cast Guide: Who’s Who in Kitty Song Covey’s Squad - Netflix Tudum
- ↑ ‘XO, Kitty’ Netflix Soundtrack: All The Songs in Season 1 - What's On Netflix
- ↑ O, Kitty confirms Lara Jean and Peter are still together - EW