Netflix drops premiere date and a high energy teaser for Cobra Kai‘s fifth season
The fifth season of the Netflix original, starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, will drop this September
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Netflix has unleashed the first look at the fifth season of Cobra Kai—and we now we know when the series will finally be hitting the streamer too.
When we last left the Valley, Terry Silver had fixed everyone real good: his dojo had won the All Valley Karate tournament—by nefarious means—forcing Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence out of the sensei game, in addition to having his Cobra Kai partner and longtime friend John Kreese arrested on trumped-up assault charges.
Now, Silver has opened Cobra Kai dojos all over the apparently lawless Valley—where all differences are settled by high school karate tournaments. And LaRusso has recruited former foe Chozen Toguchi—the pair made peace during a stellar episode in season three—to help put a stop to Silver’s quest to infect California with gangs of Cobra Kai trained bullies.
Meanwhile, Johnny is trucking down to Mexico in search of his prodigal protégé Miguel, who is on his own quest to find his biological father.
Each season has found a legacy character returning to the fold: Elizabeth Shue even came back in season three—but there is no mention of Next Karate kid star Hilary Swank or Sean Kanan as Mike Barnes, Silver’s student from Karate Kid III. However, Cobra Kai is always full of surprises.
Cobra Kai continues to be one of the better legacy sequels out there. Based essentially on an Internet meme suggesting that Daniel LaRusso was not the nice guy that the three Karate Kid films portrayed him as, the show explores themes of forgiveness and friendship. It creates a world where everything isn’t black and white, and it revels those grey areas. The heroes are not completely virtuous, the villains are never pure evil, the adults aren’t always right, and the kids aren’t always wrong.
It also delivers old-school karate action couched in ‘80s nostalgia while even parodying some of the series’ ridiculousness. One of the best lines of the fourth season comes from Thomas Ian Griffith’s Silver: “I was so hopped up on cocaine and revenge… I spent months terrorizing a teenager over a high school karate tournament. It sounds insane just talking about it.”
How many more seasons can the series stretch out this concept (the high school characters are slowly approaching their thirties)? We can only hope long enough to finally have Jackie Chan make an appearance.
A New Year’s Day tradition of the past few years, Cobra Kai will now hit Netflix on September 9.
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And of course, now we wait to see if Netflix will even still be around by September.
Hey it started on YouTube Red, it’ll be okay. Cobra Kai never dies.
Oh stop with that nonsense.
This series is easily the most true to life high school experience shows out there. Any disagreement among friends turned into an all out karate fight with multiple people going to the hospital and property damage bills sky high. The tailgating to the actual sanctioned karate tournaments were entire town affairs. My old high school built statues to the two high school boys that graduated in the 80’s that started the legacy that has persisted on for 30+ years.
Weird. My high school experience was more like having to get your parents to kiss at the high school dance in the past so that you can still exist and make sure a popular genre of music is invented.
If you think that was weird, wait till you hear about my college experience, I was on the boxing team, and I was pretty bad, but then I found out I was a werewolf! After that I was unbeatable, and weirdly my best friend on the team just so happened to play basketball in high school with my cousin, who is also a werewolf! Did I mention my uncle was one too? Needless to say, I had to do a lot of soul searching to figure out whether or not it was I should I should win boxing matches as myself or the werewolf, just like my cousin had to do in high school!
My high school experience was Larry Clark’s movie Kids. There is no punchline.
Rosario Dawson sock puppet located!
Oh come on, that is just a fantasy, no kids anywhere ever acted like that, there weren’t even any bets about making an obviously beautiful girl into the prom queen!
Silver: “You’re playing with fire, Danny boy.”Chozen Toguchi: “And I’m gasorine.”Fucking sold.(No, I’m not making fun of California-born Yuji Okumoto’s character’s accent)
This show knows it is 100% American cheese and embraces it.
What are you doing if not making fun of him? He doesn’t say “gasorine” at all. He clearly says “gasoline” as it should be said.What is the point of misspelling what he said using an outdated and insulting stereotype of Asian speakers of English?
Inaccurate and racist, but not making fun of him. Hmm. Then what are you doing?
Uh…you might want to watch the video again. It’s a Japanese-American actor speaking in a very cheesy, stereotypical Asian accent.
What are the chances that Daniel and Johnny are going to help Kreese and he becomes a good guy?
I want Terry Silver to win
“Silver’s quest to infect California with gangs of Cobra Kai trained bullies”this dude is fucked up
Don’t hold your breath on seeing Jackie Chan’s character. The creators have explicitly stated that the remake exists only as a movie in this series. (In this universe, it’s the only movie called The Karate Kid, and I’m sure some character would complain that there’s no actual karate in it.)The last season ended with Daniel deciding to recruit former Miyagi students to help take on Silver, so that’s how I’m guessing they’ll bring in Hilary Swank’s character.