Meddlesome matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) returns for her senior year at the Korean Independent School of Seoul (Kiss) in the third season of XO, Kitty, Netflix’s Korea-set spin-off series from Jenny Han’s hugely successful To All the Boys film franchise.

Chief among Kitty’s goals this year is to define her long-running on-again, off-again “situationship” with wealthy hunk and classmate Min-ho (Sang-heon Lee), but showrunner and chief writer Valentina Garza ensures that finding true love will be no easy task.

A notable step up in quality from the lacklustre second outing, this new season sees the creators use every excuse in their arsenal to move the action off-campus, whether for a Chuseok celebration, a beach party in the southern port city of Busan, or even a field trip to Lotte World – in an episode that plays more like a theme park commercial than legitimate drama.

There is also a bevy of new characters, and a welcome emphasis on Kitty’s efforts to explore her Korean heritage.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here