That’s it. After six years and six seasons (The last one divided into three parts) “Cobra Kai” has finally arrived in his last episodes. Although the three parts of season 6 were slow and incomplete, they make one of the best seasons of the show together, especially because part 3 has some of the best episodes in the entire show. (In other words, Netflix probably shouldn’t have all shared.)
“Cobra Kai” has put a long way. It survived the skepticism and the loss of its original release platform to one of the best shows in recent years and one of the best legacy continuations. It is really breathtaking that this show – which started as a earthed and more dramatic version of a joke from “How I Met Your Mother” – would not just carry out a very effective restart of “The Karate Kid” with a new generation with a new generation , the new generation appearance of Karate enthusiasts, but also as a continuation of the dream of the first three “Karate Kid” films. In the past six years we have seen how Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) argue and argue like an old couple before they finally became good friends. They even teamed up with other antagonists, Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) and Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan), to fight both John Kreese (Martin Kove) and Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith).
“Cobra Kai” is a show that has always understood how and when you do fan service, leans in Nostalgie to say something new about beloved characters and to reproduce the past to explore new stories. In his last episodes, “Cobra Kai” turns everything to 11 and delivers five hours full of The wildest moments not only on the show, But the franchise as a whole.
Cobra Kai confronts the past in its last episodes
Part 2 of season 6 left open after the Sekai Taikai was interrupted by a violent fight led to an unexpected and tragic death. The new episodes are displayed shortly afterwards, whereby the tournament was officially canceled and everyone still aimed at the violent events and have taken their chance of fame. That is until Terry Silver (of course otherwise?) Step up to the rest of the tournament in the arranging of the rest of the tournament The familiar place where the all-Valley tournament from 1984 once took place.
Not everyone is on board. On the one hand, John Kreese is not interested in killing another of his students. This is probably the biggest surprise and the best action of the season, since we see a radically different crash, which is completely shocked by the death of Kwon. What follows is the highlight of the topics of the entire franchise, which the relationship between teachers and students and how the teacher’s mistakes affect their students. Martin Kove does a spectacular job in which Creese represents crisis of faith and thinks about his past acts and whether there is a room for him in this world of karate.
This topic also extends to Daniel and Johnny. The former finally receives a solution to Miyagi’s past season secret, which was and remains overwhelming. Sure, it is interesting to argue for the show that Miyagi was not a saint and see it as overwhelming.
Deliver the last episodes of Cobra Kai
If part 3 of “Cobra Kai” Season 6 makes it clear, then this show was always the journey of Johnny Lawrence by William Zabka. Zabka receives the large spotlight in these last five episodes and does some career best work when Johnny confronts his demons.
“Cobra Kai” has always been good to know how to weapons nostalgia in the right way, and the last episodes are about looking back so that they can look forward to the front. There are many references, homage, direct recovery and direct recovery of moments from the very first “karate kid” in these episodes, and they never have the feeling that the authors nod the audience.
Instead, the references are there to say something about the past and the present to show the progress to which the characters have been. Without spoiling surprises, let’s just say that the last episodes of “Cobra Kai” come true and the highlight of six years deserves the right recalls at the right time. When the moment of truth came for this show, it proved that it was the best.
/Film rating 8 of 10
“Cobra Kai” season 6 part 3 streams from February 13, 2025 on Netflix.
