A highly-anticipated new season of XO Kitty fails to deliver the charming spark of its first season.
Season 2 promises a fresh start for Kitty at KISS—last season she was kicked out for living in the boys’ dormitory. But with the help of Yuri, the reformed mean girl, she was allowed back in, and now all is good. Well… not all, exactly.
We’re shortly introduced to a lackluster cast of new characters and a love quad between Yuri, her girlfriend Juliana, and Praveena, who Kitty meets at an assembly.
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Of course, Kitty can’t stop ogling Yuri, which concerns Juliana. The stereotypical “She’s totally in love with you” and “No, she isn’t” begins, and it’s exhausting!
Kitty realizes how much of a mess everything is turning into, and she attempts to date Praveena, who we know nothing about aside from her being crafty and having parents with serious state jobs. Kitty and Praveena never kiss or have much physical interaction aside from wholesome smiles and frequent reassurances to the audience that Kitty likes Praveena “very much,” despite the two not knowing much about each other.
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There’s plenty of excitement (and queerness) in store for this season, and we’re ready for all of it.
Anna Cathcart, who plays Kitty, spoke on the end of the Kitty-Yuri relationship recently at Decider, stating: “I think for Kitty, she’s gotten to really explore the Yuri storyline, and kind of got that out of her system, so to speak. She really got to give everything a chance and make sure she listened to her heart, and now this is where her heart has led her.”
But for viewers, the Praveena relationship feels disingenuous after the grand slam of emotions and subtle romance we experienced from Kitty and Yuri in season one that left us yearning. It’s as if the show shelved the Brown and Black queer women without consequence, doing nothing with them after using them for destructive purposes for the show’s first six episodes.
We wanted to like Season 2, but it’s a disappointment. The show deprived us of a fun, messy, realistic sapphic romance that, truthfully, didn’t seem like much of an option to begin with.
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