Netflix's COBRA KAI starring Ralph Macchio, William Zabka (2021) 2 2

[Rodey]

Yes! Another season of adults letting their children go out of control!

[Dr. Balls]

Yes! Johnny Lawrence is my spirit animal.

[Bosco685]

 

[media_junkie]

On 5/2/2024 at 10:12 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

I know it is all full of cheese and nostalgia (sp?), but damn I love this show.

[Dr. Balls]

On 5/2/2024 at 8:12 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

I love it when shows wrap up before they get stale. This show represents what is great about nostalgia. I'll be happy to watch, and sad to see it go.

[Bosco685]

[media_junkie]

On 7/11/2024 at 5:29 AM, Bosco685 said:

Dude that is only 1 week away!!!  Awesome!

 

[BCarter27]

It's interesting that Fall used to be the time of all of the big TV releases under the network model. Now, pretty much every show we all want to watch is released in the summer, similar to the blockbuster feature model.

[Bosco685]

 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

[Pittsburgh]

Great 5 episode arc to start and sets up the next 5 episodes very well!  I truly appreciate that they keep the original cast members so faithful to their original roles and that the actors/actresses seem to embrace that.  Well done!

Two random non-Cobra Kai things:

Amanda Henggeler is astonishingly hot!  I'm old(er) so I can get away with this, right?  Still allowable?  Don't care 'cuz it's true

Dallas Dupree Young IS Miles Morales!  If this happens, Marvel got it RIGHT!

[Dark Knight]

I'll be watching the new season this weekend. Totally forgot about it.

[Rodey]

It's so bad, it's good. I love it so far.

[Bosco685]

Watched the first 5 episodes and have really enjoyed where this franchise journey has taken us. Including the periodic jump back to earlier movies to reflect on their impacts to the modern story.

[Bosco685]

 

[Bosco685]

The ‘Cobra Kai’ Bosses Want to Give Mr. Miyagi His Prequel Story

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But that simply meant more thrills to come, according to Cobra Kai’s creators Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Heald and Jon Hurwitz. The Hollywood Reporter recently caught up with the trio to talk about the upcoming Part 2 (dropping Nov. 15) and Part 3 (airing sometime in 2025) remaining 10 episodes for the final season. In the chat below, they shared insight on what their creative world might look like after this successful series run, as they contemplate branching even farther from the original tree that sparked off everything, the 1984 hit movie The Karate Kid, and eye a possible Mr. Miyagi prequel.

 

It’s been 40 years since the original movie The Karate Kid premiered in movie theaters. Why has that foundational story of Daniel LaRusso, Johnny Lawrence and, of course, Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) transferred and resonated with so many generations through the Cobra Kai series?

 

• THR: So, is there room for spinoffs after you close the Cobra Kai chapters?
• SCHLOSSBERG: Absolutely! We think about spinoffs with Cobra Kai all the time. Cobra Kai itself is, in a way, a spinoff of The Karate Kid. We took the bully from The Karate Kid, we took that branch and created our own tree out of it, and we feel like we could do that with any of the characters on the show. We definitely thought about that as we’re tying things up with all the characters. We think about the fun of following them in their futures and in, addition, we think about the past. It is one of the reasons why we did the Miyagi box story this season. It opens up all these questions about Mr. Miyagi and what his life was like, and that’s been something we’ve been wanting to do for a while. We’ve talked to Robert Mark Kamen, the writer of the original Karate Kid who based this whole movie off his sensei who studied Okinawan karate; we’ve been talking about all this Miyagi backstory with him, which helped us with season six stuff. Now that we’re done, we can actually start getting into this stuff. We’ve just been focused on Cobra Kai and finishing it off. And right now, we’re in the process of editing the last couple episodes. Once that’s done, we’ll hopefully have some exciting things…

 

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