XO, Kitty Season 3 Finale: Who Kitty Chooses — And Why It Matters

Season 3 of XO, Kitty finally stops flirting with the idea of a choice and actually makes one. There is a train. There is a song. And if you have watched creator Jenny Han’s other work, it is going to feel familiar in a good way.Where Season 3 landsThe new season dropped Thursday, April 2, and it puts Kitty (Anna Cathcart) and Min-ho (Sang Heon Lee) through the ringer even after they admit they like each other. For a minute, it looks like they are going to miss their shot completely. In the finale, Kitty heads back home to Portland, Oregon. Min-ho bolts after her in a very Jenny Han-coded chase that echoes The Summer I Turned Pretty. He does not make the train. Instead, he sends Kitty a track he wrote just for her. She listens. They reconnect. And, finally, they stop orbiting and call it what it is: they are a couple. The last scene puts them side by side on the way to Portland, talking about him meeting the rest of her family. It mirrors a choice Kitty’s sister Lara Jean (Lana Condor) made with Peter (Noah Centineo) — something Lara Jean and Kitty actually talk through earlier in the episode — so the show is very much winking at its own family tree.How we got hereKitty flew to Korea for school at KISS (Korean Independent School of Seoul) to be closer to her long-distance boyfriend Dae (Choi Min-yeong). Once there, her heart got complicated: she caught real feelings for Yuri (Gia Kim) and discovered sparky, unexpected chemistry with Min-ho. Season 3 sorts that mess out, with Kitty and Min-ho riding a choppy wave before his big romantic play at the station seals it. What Anna Cathcart says about Kitty’s pathIn a March 2024 chat, Cathcart said she is on Team Kitty, as long as Kitty is listening to herself — whether that means being with someone or not. She has even tossed around ideas with the writers about where to steer things next. The show has always let Kitty’s world be bigger than just coupledom: family discoveries, friendships, and a general curiosity about, well, everything."I just want her to follow what feels right for her."Cathcart framed Season 1 as Kitty learning to trust that instinct, and she hopes the character keeps staying brave about who she is and what she wants — and that fans want to watch that unfold too.The bottom lineSeason 3 pays off the will-they energy with an honest-to-God decision, caps it with a musically delivered confession, and ties it back to the To All the Boys universe without turning into a cameo parade. XO, Kitty is now streaming on Netflix.

XO, Kitty Season 3 Finale: Who Kitty Chooses — And Why It Matters

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