Posted on 01/06/2022 12:03:01 PM PST by NohSpinZone
In the Netflix reboot titled “Cobra Kai,” now in its fourth season, the original actors have returned as adults who run their own dojos, but are still clinging to their old rivalry, which infects their own karate-obsessed children. Cobra Kai’s ruthless sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) also returns, as does his gray-haired henchman Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Martial arts fervor sweeps over the suburbs of Los Angeles, and kids join Miyagi-Do, Cobra Kai and Lawrence’s upstart Eagle Fang as if they were street gangs. The animosity becomes so vicious that one student is literally paralyzed during a fight at school. In the latest season, the senseis make a pact that the two losers of the big All Valley Tournament will shutter their karate schools, forever ending the war of dropkicks and leg sweeps.
*SNIP*
Nowhere else on television are you more likely to see a child punch another kid in the face for zero reason at all. The bullying is brutal, and every time a character offers some type of peace treaty, it’s met with a roundhouse kick to the nuts. Even the adults are incapable of acting like grown-ups, their zealous allegiance to their dojos reminiscent of blind political polarization. Of course, there’s an element of soap opera here, in which the kids betray their allegiances and flip-flop from Cobra Kai to Miyagi-Do, but it’s always to avenge a beating or fuel a dumb grudge.
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The show is just fun to watch. Anyone comparing Cobra Kai to reality is crazy 😂
Now THAT’s funny!
Well, there is something very nihilistic about the 4th season: Right and wrong and good and bad are so conflated we have nothing left to root for.....Breaking Bad and the Sopranos tried to flirt with that, but we still knew what was up.
It’s a great show that deals with social issues and there absolutely are many “good” characters.
Disagree. The characters are complicated but we care about many of them. And most of them have good intentions. The end this season was fantastic.
Eagle fang?
Do eagles have fangs? I’m pretty sure they don’t.
It’s like a monster a boy draws on his 6th grade science note book.
Or Strongbads Troglador.
What’s missing from the formula is Mr. Miyagi, who was always the voice of moderation. Daniel-san tries to take on that role, but he himself is still too rash and quick to get caught up in the drama, so he’s not really filling those shoes very well.
“Yeah but they’re BADASS!!!!”
My wife and I were really getting into that show until the episode where the head of the old bad guy group came into the show. We watched one more episode and that was it.
We could no longer suspend disbelief. This was about a year ago.
im betting the author of this article is a snowflake
Do eagles have fangs? I’m pretty sure they don’t."
Is that Fang fang's cousin?
That spy went above and beyond in her service to her country.
We were bummed when we finished the latest season! lol
It’s true though, that the alliances seem to wander all over the place from season to season, but who cares?
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