‘Kyle XY’ Returns with a New Girl and a New Mission
The Highly Anticipated Second Season Premieres Monday
No one, probably least of all ABC Family, anticipated that a little old teen-oriented sci-fi show called Kyle XY would take off the way it did last summer. Exceeding every expectation, the intriguing plot about a bellybutton-less amnesiac with incredible intelligence gave the basic-cable network its best ratings ever for an original series and simultaneously locked in a second season of thirteen episodes, three more than in the first year. Well, the wait for Season Two is now finally almost over because Kyle XY returns to the tube Monday night at 8pm EST, complete with a female bellybutton-deprived counterpart for our beloved hero Kyle (Matt Dallas)—Jessi XX, played by series newcomer Jaimie Alexander (Rest Stop)—and a new story line that revolves around the purpose of Jessi’s introduction.
When we last left the series, Kyle departed the supportive Trager family after a bogus couple stepped forward claiming that he was their son. Kyle was aware that the people were not really related to him, but he complied with their scheme in order to protect the Tragers from harm and, presumably, learn more about his past from the vantage point of an insider.
Season Two unveils Jessi XX, a teenage girl whose origins and existence are equally mysterious as Kyle’s, with the added kicker that she is just as malevolent as he is benign. Moreover, whereas Kyle had the good fortune to end up with the relatively normal and eventually welcoming Trager family after he woke up alone in the woods, Jessi doesn’t fare so well when she emerges from nowhere in the heat of an explosion. Instead, she is captured by people who are up to no good and then tasked with infiltrating Kyle’s world. Posing as a patient of Trager matriarch and compassionate psychologist Nicole (Marguerite MacIntyre), she then proceeds to carry out her mission with a determination as relentless as Kyle’s.
While everyone else gets excited about this new character Jessi, who will most definitely prove a fascinating foil and maybe even future ally of the original teen from nowhere, I’m reserving all of my happiness for the return of Tom Foss, played by X-Files veteran Nicholas Lea. Lea was superb as duplicitous Alex Krycek in the earlier groundbreaking show, and he’s done no less a fantastic job with the Foss character in Kyle XY. In fact, it was largely because I knew he would appear in the series that I became hooked earlier than most fans. I’m currently psyched beyond words that he’s back for the second go-round, which makes me confident that good times will begin in earnest on TV this summer when the second season of Kyle XY premieres next Monday.
As an added bonus to help fans catch up with the series and to allow the uninitiated to learn what all the fuss is about, ABC Family is airing a marathon of the entire ten-episode first season on Sunday, June 10, from 1pm to 11pm EST.
From the official ABC Family press release regarding Season Two of Kyle XY:
More questions arise and the risk of danger escalates in the second season of the hit ABC Family original series “Kyle XY.” Kyle begins to learn the truth about his past, but under the strict training of Tom Foss, he must also learn the full scope of his abilities. And all of this must be kept secret — even from the Tragers, who just want to help him return to the life of a normal teenager. Kyle must learn to live with his double life and the unknown dangers that lurk outside the family’s walls. The peril only increases when the girl in the pod is set free and is on the hunt for Kyle. But can Kyle keep the threats away or will they come straight through the Trager’s front door? “Kyle XY” stars Matt Dallas, Marguerite MacIntyre, Bruce Thomas, April Matson, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Chris Olivero, Kirsten Prout and Jaimie Alexander.
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Kyle XY will air Mondays on ABC Family at 8pm EST
Kyle XY photo courtesy of ABC Family
