Season 6 Part 2 - 5 episodes (2024)
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Created by: Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Starring:
Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Xolo Maridueña, Mary Mouser, Tanner
Buchanan, Jacob Bertrand, Peyton List, Martin Kove, Gianni DeCenzo
Rated: TV-14
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Plot
Decades
after their 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament bout, middle-aged Daniel
LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves martial-arts rivals again.
In this season students of Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai prepare for the Sekai Taikai, the world championships of karate.
Verdict
I don't know why I keep watching this show. The first two seasons were good. The last few seasons have been nothing more than teens beating each other up amidst forced drama. This show resorts to fighting when it runs out of story ideas, and there's a lot of fighting. This show is so flat and boring. It's especially glaring with what the first two seasons achieved.
Skip it.
Review
This is the second of three parts comprising the sixth and final season. The third part will release in February 2025.
This show started as a gimmick, bringing back the original actors from The Karate Kid. It was never a great show, but it was a fun nostalgia trip. The original premise re-examined the villain from the movie, Johnny (William Zabka). It also put Johnny, stuck in the 80s, in the modern day to mixed results. Subsequent seasons lost any nostalgia or introspection and became high school kids beating each other up for a a host of benign reasons.
We were introduced to a plot in Part 1 that gets no conclusion. All we learn is that there will be a big karate tournament later amidst a lot of filler. The first five episodes could be condensed to fifteen minutes. Part 2 is set at the big karate tournament, the Sekai Taikai in Spain.
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| William Zabka, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Xolo Maridueña, Jacob Bertrand, Gianni DeCenzo play Johnny, Samantha, Robby, Miguel, Hawk, Demetri |
This show has long left what made it interesting. I continue watching due being a victim of misplaced nostalgia and the sunk cost fallacy.
There's a lot of drama; amongst the Miyagi-do team, between Miyagi-do and Cobra Kai, really between Miyagi-do and everyone else. Alliances are always shifting just to create drama. Tory (Peyton List) joined Cobra Kai in part one for no real reason other than to give this some kind of plot. Her relationship or lack of one with Robby (Tanner Buchanan) is more drama this season, and you'd think the show would have resolved that by now. It's just empty filler. Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) and Samantha (Mary Mouser) have very little to do in these episodes. Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny (William Zabka) still can't agree on a strategy despite merging their dojos in season four. It's an easy plot point which is why it hasn't been resolved.
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| Ralph Macchio, William Zabka play Daniel LaRusso, Johnny Lawrence |
The show has introduced characters from the movies to mask the lack of plot and that's no different, though they're having to resort to lesser known characters. This brings back a villain from a previous season that is a desperate ploy. In the first couple of seasons this show developed characters and provided a new perspective on Johnny. Since then, this series has resorted to recycling plot points and abandoning any kind of development. Any time something happens that isn't karate, it always feels forced.
How this show doesn't have a bunch of injured kids in a hospital, I'll never know. These kids bare knuckle brawl constantly, and in reality they'd all have serious injuries. Also, I guess they no longer have school. Initially this was about kids developing their confidence, but that's no longer explored.
This season would work so much better if it wasn't split into three parts. This entire season could easily be ten episode or less. I didn't enjoy anything this season, other than when it ended.
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