Everyone on "Cobra Kai" should be in jail
I’ve been enjoying Cobra Kai on Netflix as much as the next person — a tongue-in-cheek soap opera about the Karate Kid characters all grown up? I’m there. And I’m not going to lie and say I stopped watching the third season at any point, because of course I didn’t.
But Season 3 is NUTS. The show began as fun, silly comedy-drama about two former karate stars continuing their teenage feud as adults by forming competing dojos; now, there are full-on teenage karate gangs who troll the town for nerds to beat up. One gang even does a home invasion to ambush the other gang!!! ACAB forever but for real, why have only a couple of these kids been arrested?? At the very least, Hawk needs to be put in Hannibal Lecter-style restraints.
That said, William Zabka and Ralph Macchio do great work as these guys in their 50s who can’t let go of their old rivalry, and keep refusing to see that they have way more in common than they’d like to admit. (They, too, absolutely should be seeing more blowback for creating the karate gangs.) And bless this show for the character of Daniel LaRusso’s wife, who thinks the entire karate feud is the stupidest thing in the world.
Cobra Kai is ridiculous, but it’s very fun — don’t think too hard about it and you’ll have a good time.
Consider subscribing to Kat Watches Everything!
If you like this newsletter and appreciate the work that goes into making it, consider throwing a few bucks in — it’s $5 a month or $50 a year (that’s two months free!). It’ll help keep this whole thing going, and paying subscribers get exclusive content every week that the rest of you miss out on. Hit the button below to support your local pop culture bum:
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
You can follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here. *All typos and other errors were included specifically to bother you.*