Cobra Kai

It's a wonderful series, I really like it, I've seen it 3 times and I still can't get enough of it. I recommend you see it if you haven't seen it.

This is just such a terrible series it is hard to know how to cover it all in a brief review. At first it was slow but mildly interesting just because we remembered and liked the original movie. But the unbelievably stupid and childish behavior of the "adults" was so off-putting that I'm not sure why we even stuck with it. Just one example of the problems: can you really stomach a teacher throwing empty glass beer bottles at their students in an outdoor training area where everyone is always barefoot? This happens indoor too, and NOBODY every says one thing about how inappropriate or dangerous that could be! Empty beer bottles seems to be a near constant theme of the program, but throwing them at the students gets more frequent in later seasons. so the concept of this kind of adult behavior seems to be completely accepted by the writing team and the producers. The story lines are still a little engrossing, but the ridiculousness of the writing just makes it too hard to actually like either the show or any of the characters - they all constantly shift from stupid to stupid AND evil to saint and then back again to stupid, and they do this repeatedly, sometimes several times in each episode. Now in the middle of the final season, we are just hate-watching it so that we can finally put this mess behind us.

This is another one of the shows I left IMDb over. I logged in, gave it a check, and all the reviews above 5 stars were gone. They don't want people to like it... ... and I understand why, Cobra Kai breaks all the rules. It respects the IP, and you aren't supposed to do that any longer. It respects the fans, and you can't do that either. Both of those are huge No-nos in present day Hollywood... because they want things to fail. And then, of course, it doesn't shriek politics at the top of it's lungs as loud as it can in every episode to push "Meh Message." In fact it not only entertains, but it actually takes old fan theories into account, or at least one of the more popular fan theories and spins it to make the old baddie look like a good guy, to make the story more relatable from Johnny's perspective and it manages to do it without insulting or antagonizing the fans. I don't want to say that this is the perfect reboot, but it is the sort of Reboot that is successful for a reason. It's the one that Hollywood should do more of.