Cobra Kai

Netflix's Cobra Kai has clocked in 100%, 90%, 90% and 95% critics scores for the first four seasons, and now season 5 has arrived with another 100% score, ...

Season 5 looks to be another high quality offering from the team, and it’s not a matter of if it hits number one on Netflix, but when, and for how long it will stay there. Cobra Kai, however, is in the rare Netflix category of shows that never have to fear renewal, and so far, Netflix doesn’t have to worry about it putting out a stinker of a season, which has not happened yet. The show has been a star-maker, allowing Xolo Mariduena to nab the role of Blue Beetle for DC, and has elevated Peyton List to become a bonafide Gen Z superstar online. It’s almost the perfect Netflix show, one with a low budget that both critics and fans love and a seemingly endless fountain ideas of how to continue the story as characters shuffle between dojos and compete in yearly karate tournaments. 100% from fans too, but that’s based on a tiny amount of reviews, given that it just arrived a few hours ago. But finally C) almost always reviews very, very well, unlike a lot of other Netflix top hits as of late.

Crossing the streams with its sequels, the fifth season of "Cobra Kai" features heavy dollops of the second and third "The Karate Kid" movies while continue ...

Five seasons in, the show has already surpassed any reasonable expectations, developing a life of its own that proves it wasn't just "Karate Kid"-ing around. The seasons have also begun to exhibit a familiar pattern, starting and finishing strong while dragging a bit in the middle. The kids, in fact, have as many shifting allegiances as the elder generation, whose AARP-eligible karate masters continue to prove remarkably spry.

Pay for my tattoo of an Olive Garden breadstick, with little steaming squiggles coming out of the ends, and I'll get it right now. OG 4 lyfe, baby. Come at my ...

At the end of the episode, the trio all take a bite of a breadstick, in unison. This isn't like the Applebee's scene in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, where it's part of the joke, that the Bobby fam is having this big hoorah at an Applebee's, treating it like they're at Ruth's Chris. Come at my suburban Olive Garden—Greentree, PA, the GOAT—and I will defend it with my very life. Turn out that, in an effort to make Robby and Miguel best friends, Johnny invited the two for a come-to-Jesus at the Italian ( [okay, "Italian"](https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a19562071/olive-garden-meatball-pizza-bowl/)) mecca. There's some humor going on in Cobra Kai, but I actually believe, in my heart of hearts, that money was transferred here, with the intent of Johnny Lawrence earnestly speaking about the healing power of breadsticks. Pay for my tattoo of an Olive Garden breadstick, with little steaming squiggles coming out of the ends, and I'll get it right now.

It's fun to see the villains of two Karate Kid sequels connecting over dinner. A recap of “Molé,” episode 2 of season five of 'Cobra Kai' on Netflix.

• Possibly the funniest moment of the episode comes after Johnny suggests they “shake the tree to get the apples.” “Or we could climb the tree ourselves,” Robby suggests. I have to think this isn’t the end of Tory’s crisis of conscience, of course. It makes for a heartwarming moment of deep respect from Johnny, who says, “That’s about the most badass thing I’ve ever seen.” It goes a familiar route: People keep warning Miguel about his dad being bad news, but he wants to believe the kindness and intelligence he sees are genuine. And it’s fun, as a fan of the franchise, to see the villains of two Karate Kid sequels connecting over dinner, relating over their rivalries with the same man. But it’s a satisfying endpoint for now, and I’m glad Miguel will soon be back in the show’s main orbit again. It does feel a bit abrupt how quickly it ends, with Miguel realizing his dad is exactly the man Carmen said he was — and presumably forgiving her for lying to him. He even demands to see Miguel’s phone, though he stops and apologizes just before he can notice a photo of Carmen. It’s basically a warning that the word “honor” is going to pop up 50 times in this episode. When she asks him why he’s a sensei, he simply answers, “Honor.” Reflecting on the time he thought he lost his honor but found it again, he wisely says, “No one can take honor from you. “Long, Long Way From Home” set up an irresistible storyline with Chozen helping defeat Cobra Kai from the inside, but by the end of the aptly named “Molé,” everything is out in the open. The episode begins with a flashback to Okinawa in 1972, as a young Chozen gets schooled about honor by his uncle Sato (last played by the late Danny Kamekona in The Karate Kid Part II).

This episode has it all: a little relationship drama, a little karate, and a new appearance from a character from the movies. A recap of “Playing With Fire ...

Either way, “Playing With Fire” feels like a return to the Cobra Kai we know and love. Demetri has the right idea when he and Eli take Miguel to a jewelry store to buy an expensive octopus charm for Sam. That’s continuing this season: In the tank, she sees various characters demanding different things from her, with a hallucination of Tory transforming into a hallucination of Sam herself. On one side, Demetri and Eli show some adorable (and justified) concern about the lack of emojis in Sam’s texts; on the other side, Yasmine and Moon urge Sam to keep it cool and wait until they can talk in person. Of course, this immediately leads to a fight between Mike and Chozen, the latter of whom mistakes their shadowboxing for a real fight (and already beat down the “goons” who, it turns out, were Mike’s employees). Still, it takes some time to himself — and a welcome heart-to-heart with Miguel, whom he offers some simple but genuinely good advice — to remind him that he isn’t. In the episode’s closing moments, we see exactly what that means for Mike Barnes, who finds his furniture store burning to the ground. The truth, which Daniel learns when he grabs the phone from Mike, is that he owns a furniture store passed down from his father-in-law. The episode builds up the tension around “karate’s bad boy” so much that it becomes a little obvious he won’t be the bully Daniel and Chozen expect him to be. With everyone back in the Valley, “Playing With Fire” feels like a back-to-basics episode of Cobra Kai. As Daniel and Mike catch up, we get a drastically different picture of the needlessly cruel mercenary bully of The Karate Kid Part III. Still, the classic series of misunderstandings that follows is great fun, starting with the two handsaws he removes from his trunk (“good for cutting bone,” Chozen notes) and continuing with the phone conversation Daniel overhears.

Fans of 'Cobra Kai' might have been surprised to see characters possibly die in the finale episode. So did anyone in 'Cobra Kai' season 5 die?

After trying to get them to stop fighting, things immediately went south when one of them stabbed Kreese with a shiv, leaving him for dead on the lunchroom floor in the midst of pandemonium. But given how things ended up—especially with Kreese out of jail—Cobra Kai season 6 will no doubt be the biggest one yet. While we still don't know the specifics of what the police officer told them, the show immediately jumped back to the prison where Kreese's body was wheeled into a coroner's office to be examined. Luckily, it was revealed that he actually survived the attack, and Mike and Johnny brought him over to Cobra Kai. Folsom tried to comfort him and told him he can do better and turn his life around. After Kreese spent the entire season in prison, there was no way anything could have happened to him...right? He noted that he felt his time was coming to an end and he regretted everything he'd done, since it tainted his legacy on Earth. In one of the most shocking moments in the entire series, Terry Silver and Chozen got into a major fight as the Miyagi-Do students broke into Cobra Kai and the adults went to Silver's place to try to take him down for good. After Miyagi-Do successfully exposed Silver and Cobra Kai's horrible practices to the public, Daniel began to worry over Chozen. As they took jabs at each other, they went into one of Silver's collection rooms, where he got a katana and Chozen revealed he brought his sai swords with him. [Cobra Kai ](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a38584083/cobra-kai-season-5-news-date-cast-spoilers/) [season 5](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a38584083/cobra-kai-season-5-news-date-cast-spoilers/) spoilers because there is a lot to talk about when it comes to that big finale. Well, we have to get to the obvious first.

"Strike First. Strike Hard. No Mercy" Ralph Macchio, William Zabka and the Cobra Kai cast tease the epic fights and higher stakes of season 5.

Ralph Macchio acknowledged the challenges that come with creating a successful program as the television medium continues to evolve. “When they say, Action!, boy, that intensity kicks up a notch.” “Kreese was a parental figure to Tory and a guide. And I think that can open up a door to hopefully some level of understanding.” Every character in this show is carrying a fair share of trauma with them. “I think there’s a really big need for for some unity,” he said. “Daniel is the only one who knows of Terry Silver, and knows the truth of Terry Silver,” Macchio explained. And since he won the bet at the All Valley Karate Tournament, Silver has no opposition in his mission, leaving him room spread his message and influence throughout the San Fernando Valley and beyond. — to expand and take over the map.” Their All Valley Karate Tournament victory against Daniel’s dojo Miyagi-Do and Johnny’s Eagle Fang means Silver’s reign seems imminent as our two heroes are forced, per a mutual agreement with Silver, to close up shop. Over three decades later, the legacy continues as new characters, conflicts, and epic fight scenes have catapulted the ’80s phenomenon back into the pop culture vernacular. Season 5 of the hit martial arts drama is now streaming on Netflix, and audiences everywhere will be witness to a series that is still showing up in top form.

Meanwhile, Mr. Miyagi's prized pupil Daniel LaRusso and Cobra Kai's original bad boy Johnny Lawrence are forced closed the doors to their dojos after losing the ...

One audience reviewer said the show brought him back to his childhood, providing viewers an escape from the turbulence of today. The show got its start on YouTube, which produced three seasons before it stopped making original scripted programming, and was then picked up by Netflix in 2020. The new season picks up with Lawrence going after his student, Miguel Diaz, who went to Mexico in search of his real father. Snake in the grass Terry Silver swept the leg on his Vietnam War buddy and Cobra Kai Karate co-founder John Kreese, landing him in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Back in the Valley, LaRusso confronts another foe from his past. A dark cloud loomed over the city of Los Angeles at the end of Cobra Kai's fourth season.

In the Season 5 premiere of Cobra Kai, Miguel searches for his father as Terry Silver reveals his expansion plan for the dojo.

Silver's voiceover returns, and it is a turning point for Cobra Ka as he addresses all of his students, celebrating that his enemies have been forced to close up shop and Cobra Kai has more students than ever before — but this means Cobra Kai will need a new Sensei. Miguel follows the man he believes is his pop to a colorful outdoor market and is dismayed to see him kiss a pretty young woman and play with a toddler. She goes on about his lack of interest in her life and when he tells her there is more to life than karate, she hangs up. Miguel tries to chat with the child, and he runs off. Miguel easily neutralizes the bouncer and speaks to the leader of the group in Spanish, who lets him go. People are flocking to Cobra Kai's grand opening and Daniel and Chozen watch from a car park nearby. He starts to approach a group of card players and a bouncer stops him. Daniel conveys his fears about Terry Silver and the expansion of Cobra Kai, and is worried Silver will brainwash most of the kids in the Valley. When he heard Miguel was in trouble, he had to do something, and he needed Robbie's help tracking down a man named Hector Salazar. Miguel is happy to reimburse them for their time until he spots the scam: they've taken his bag and now want money in exchange for it. Johnny offers Robbie a Mexican coke, which Robbie tells him is just a regular coke. His spiel is to appeal to a broad range of different people and promises to turn your kid into a warrior.