Cobra Kai: Never Dies

[Kaos]

I’m a sappy, nostalgic, sentimental old fart. 

This isn’t great.  It’s overly dramatic. It’s silly.  It’s goofy at times.  It’s unrealistic. It was occasionally uneven.

But I love it. 

It’s over now. Final six episodes on the Netflix.   Will never be classic television like Breaking Bad or Sopranos.  But it understood what it was. Understood it from day one and never really wavered.

It hit so many right notes along the multi season span.  People may say it wasn’t necessary.  But it was.  Johnny’s redemption arc may be the greatest comeback story ever told. 

The final five episodes wrapped the entire saga up very well - and there was a lot to wrap.

It makes me feel kinda dumb for liking it but I do. No. That’s inaccurate. I love the show.

Cobra Kai.  Never die. 

[CCTAU]

I didn’t get to watch it. I canceled the Obama network.

[Kaos]

I didn’t get to watch it. I canceled the Obama network.

Steal somebody's login. 



I get it. Netflix propped up the Obamas and made them ridiculously rich with a "producing" deal.  Everybody was complicit.  I don't watch the stuff they're associated with (if I'm aware). I don't watch the stuff XiBron is connected to.  But there's some good content there.  The Korean shows? Cobra Kai? Some documentaries?  It's never my first choice to stream (that's always Pluto) and if my ex-wife wasn't paying for it I don't know that I would have it. But for an old fart like me with a sentimental, nostalgic streak that runs deep?  Cobra Kai hit all the right spots.

[The Six]

Stopped watching after the butch girl and the short girls had a street fight at school and the blonde emo dude through the blue beetle kid off the stairs. Realized the shark was jumped long ago. Nostalgia entertainment holds very little value for me. If it does for you, I'm sorry. Or, I'm happy for you. Whatever blows your nether whiskers.

[Kaos]

Stopped watching after the butch girl and the short girls had a street fight at school and the blonde emo dude through the blue beetle kid off the stairs. Realized the shark was jumped long ago. Nostalgia entertainment holds very little value for me. If it does for you, I'm sorry. Or, I'm happy for you. Whatever blows your nether whiskers.

The shark was leaped (purposely) almost from the first episode.  It leaned into what it was unabashedly. 

Nostalgia done right is fine art. This is done right.  I’m not interested in Ben Stiller unfunnily dumping on Starsky and Hutch. Don’t care to see (daddario aside) Rock and Zac Efron vulgarly gaying up Baywatch. Hate the twink Magnum reboot. 

But this? Done with love by people who understood and appreciate what Karate Kid was and treat its superfluousness with a gentle reverence? Yeah.  I liked it.  It was dumb in places.  It was uneven.  I didn’t much like the “on location in Mexico” storyline.  But it always found its way back.

[GH2001]

The shark was leaped (purposely) almost from the first episode.  It leaned into what it was unabashedly. 

Nostalgia done right is fine art. This is done right.  I’m not interested in Ben Stiller unfunnily dumping on Starsky and Hutch. Don’t care to see (daddario aside) Rock and Zac Efron vulgarly gaying up Baywatch. Hate the twink Magnum reboot. 

But this? Done with love by people who understood and appreciate what Karate Kid was and treat its superfluousness with a gentle reverence? Yeah.  I liked it.  It was dumb in places.  It was uneven.  I didn’t much like the “on location in Mexico” storyline.  But it always found its way back.

we don't agree a ton of this stuff. but when we do? It's Cobra Kai, Sopranos and Breaking Bad/Saul.

Well put.

[Kaos]

we don't agree a ton of this stuff. but when we do? It's Cobra Kai, Sopranos and Breaking Bad/Saul.

Well put.

Don't kid yourself.  He's got a tracker installed on my TV so he can watch what I watch in real time.