Three Netflix shows to watch if you loved ‘XO Kitty’ Season 3
XO Kitty season three has finally dropped, and nobody is okay. Like nobody. Kitty came back to KISS for her senior year with this whole cute little “Senior Sunset List”. Our girl was ready for some quality time with her Korean fam and checking off memories, and then the universe just declined.
A new villain named Marius showed up, being messy with Q and Jin. Eunice somehow got a K-pop single that was giving actual Jennie from BLACKPINK energy, and Kitty fully convinced herself that Min Ho got their friend pregnant. Girl. He didn’t. The miscommunication to end all miscommunications.
And then the Chuseok dinner scene happened, and everything just exploded. The only way to say it is that Kitty was spiralling. Also, Lara Jean faked having norovirus just to fly to Seoul and check on her sister. Lana Condor came back, and honestly, she ate. The Covey sisters back in Seoul together? That’s all the fans of the franchise have ever wanted.
But let’s get to what everyone was actually waiting for. Min Ho and Kitty finally kissed… way earlier in the season than expected. There were false starts, trust issues, Kitty getting in her own head about not fitting into his world, and then in the finale, he literally ran through a subway station to stop her from flying home. Netflix knew exactly what they were doing.
So now all eight episodes are gone, and the hole in the chest is real. We still haven’t got any season four confirmation, and the waiting is going to be brutal. But if you absolutely loved this super chaotic season of XO Kitty, these three shows are the perfect way to survive the wait.
Three Netflix shows to watch if you loved XO Kitty Season 3
Never Have I Ever (2020-2023)
If Kitty’s whole thing is being an American girl figuring herself out in a foreign country, Devi Vishwakumar is that same energy. All you’ve got to do is make it an Indian-American girl losing her mind in suburban California. Created by Mindy Kaling, Never Have I Ever ran for four seasons and ended in 2023 with Devi finally at Princeton and in a relationship with Ben. The show is messy, and Devi is a character all of us can relate to. Granted, she is not a perfect character at all; she makes genuinely terrible decisions constantly, which is exactly why she is so fun to watch.
What makes it a similar watch to XO Kitty is that both girls are obsessive, both are dealing with family grief, both cannot stop getting in their own way when it comes to love, and both keep on making plans while the universe keeps destroying them. The big difference is that Devi is funnier and messier, while Kitty is more romantic and swoony. But if the Kitty slow burn was your thing? The Ben vs Paxton debate in this show will keep you on your toes for four seasons straight.
My Life with the Walter Boys (2023-)
Nobody was expecting to be as obsessed with this show as they ended up being, and yet here we all are. Actually, this show is a better watch if you loved The Summer I Turned Pretty, but it’ll do for Xo Kitty fans too. Jackie Howard loses her entire family in a car accident and ends up moving from Manhattan to a ranch in rural Colorado with her mum’s best friend, Katherine, who is raising literally ten kids. Yup, ten of them! Two of those kids are Cole and Alex Walter, and yes, it becomes a love triangle immediately. Yes, it’s dramatic, and yes, it absolutely works.
In XO Kitty, Kitty went from Portland to Seoul and had to figure out a whole new world. Similarly, in My Life with the Walter Boys, Jackie went from Manhattan to a Colorado ranch and had the exact same culture shock, not just a different ZIP code. Both shows are also really good at making you switch sides on the love triangle every single episode, which is genuinely evil behaviour from the writers. The show already has two seasons, and the third is coming soon, so there’s actually content to binge right now without a long wait.
Heartstopper (2022-)
Based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novel, Heartstopper follows Charlie and Nick at a British all-boys school. Charlie is openly gay, Nick is a popular rugby player who slowly realises he is bisexual, and their friendship turns into something so genuinely sweet it might wet your eyes and melt your heart. Look, if XO Kitty had you soft and emotional and rooting for two people to just figure it out already, Heartstopper is the perfect next watch for you.
The show gets deeper and more emotionally complex each season. But most importantly, it focuses on the terrifying question of whether a teenage relationship survives real life. That’s the same maturity XO Kitty season three was finally starting to show. Netflix announced a feature film called Heartstopper Forever to wrap up Nick and Charlie’s story, so if starting a new obsession sounds good right now, this is the one.