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.

Cobra Kai actor Gianni DeCenzo, who plays Dimitri on the show, has opened up about Dimitri's big victory in season 5.

I don't know!" Cobra Kai has a habit of coming back to life suddenly. "I was just happy to have my mini-victory with Dimitri against Kyler," DeCenzo said.

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.

Who's okay with only having access to half the water park? A recap of “Downward Spiral,” episode 4 of season five of 'Cobra Kai' on Netflix.

Johnny gets the lightest subplot of the episode as he turns to the gig economy for work now that he’s out of a job with a baby on the way. Miguel and Robby have one last facedown at the end of the episode when Johnny comes to pick Robby up. He even calls up Shannon and asks to have Robby for the summer. It’s a nice way to feature a sensei-student pairing that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in the story since Eagle Fang shut down. But from Kenny’s point of view, everything good in his life came from Cobra Kai; before, he was a lonely victim, and now he’s on top of the food chain, surrounded by “friends.” He’s not going to quit now. The biggest conflict, though, is a territory war straight out of West Side Story: The park is split in half, with Cobra Kai restricted to one side and the ex-Miyagi Do and Eagle Fang kids to the other. Robby makes one last attempt, telling her that she’s “part of the problem” if she stays in Cobra Kai. “Don’t tell me the best place for Kenny is Cobra Kai,” Robby says to Tory after they witness his bullying Anthony firsthand. The issue isn’t that Daniel was wrong to be suspicious; we know he was right. But while she has plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the role karate plays in the Valley — both her kids’ and her husband’s lives have been threatened in the past year — she’s never really suffered a personal loss because of it. Daniel admits that he didn’t tell Amanda he was still involved in this war, but it only escalates from there: When Silver bids $30,000 for the treasured bonsai trees Daniel is donating, he taunts Daniel with the idea that he’ll probably just use them for mulch. Back at home, Amanda is understandably pissed at how Daniel embarrassed her in front of the board.

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(And this is before Jessica returns in Season 5 and we find out she is the cousin of Daniel LaRusso’s wife, Amanda.) Anyway, the three heavies try to convince Daniel to sign up for the All-Valley Tournament but he refuses. To pay for the repairs to the show, Daniel and not-his-girlfriend Jessica go to retrieve a special bonsai tree that Mr. His plan is to start training Daniel in the “strike first” ethos of Cobra Kai and separate him from Mr. He lives in London, his DMs are open, and he is probably thinking about dessert. Mike takes Snake and Dennis to the bonsai shop where Daniel is hanging out with his girlfriend Jessica (Robyn Lively). Of course, Mike won’t fight fair, kicking Daniel in the old family jewels before deploying some illegal punches to really deliver the pain. Meanwhile, Silver impersonates a poor karate master and tries to get close to Daniel, who has opened a bonsai tree shop in a sketchy part of the city with Mr. Who is even left to terrorize the karate-obsessed teens of the San Fernando Valley and their martial arts aggrieved fathers (and father figures)? Silver’s plan to get Daniel is two-fold and absolutely bonkers. We never get to see that epic fight in this season, so here is a reminder of just who Mike Barnes is, how he started working with Terry Silver, and why he and Daniel have not just beef, but really, really old dry-aged beef. Johnny Lawrence ( [William Zabka](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a35120601/william-zabka-interview-cobra-kai-johnny-lawrence/)) has turned away from the dark side and merged his start-up [Eagle Fang](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a34992512/cobra-kai-eagle-fang-karate/) dojo with Daniel LaRusso’s ( [Ralph Macchio](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a35176504/ralph-macchio-cobra-kai-season-3/)) Miyagi-Do Karate. John Kreese ( [Martin Kove](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a34554787/martin-kove-cobra-kai-interview/)) was [sent to prison in the Season 4 finale](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38530713/cobra-kai-season-4-ending-explained/) thanks to [Terry Silver](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38579940/cobra-kai-who-is-terry-silver/) ( [Thomas Ian Griffith](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38628716/thomas-ian-griffith-cobra-kai-season-4-interview/)) framing him for a beating he didn’t deliver and stealing Cobra Kai from his clutches.

Cobra Kai” Season 5, the latest installment in the popular “Karate Kid” sequel TV series on Netflix, currently has a perfect 100% critics score on Rotten ...

Recent TV shows to achieve a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes include Netflix’s “Mo,” FX/Hulu’s “Reservation Dogs” Season 2, HBO’s “Hacks” Season 1 and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” Season 1. Season 1 of “Cobra Kai” also has a 100% critics score on the site, while seasons 2 and 3 have a 90% critics score and S4 clocks in at 95%. As of Friday, “Cobra Kai” Season 5 registered a 100% Tomatometer score, based on Rotten Tomatoes’ aggregation of 27 critics ratings, as well as a 96% audience score.

Cobra Kai is back with season 5 – armed with even more familiar faces from the Karate Kid universe. Here's who they are, and how they tie into the series.

While their relationship became platonic, between the films and the series it seems Jessica was a major person in LaRusso's life – especially his love life. Infuriated, Barnes later targets LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, only to then team up with him in a bid to take down Silver for good. Barnes was a member of Cobra Kai back in Karate Kid III, and was one of the foes that LaRusso went up against. She even got tangled up in some of the fights as well. So not only did he lose the game, Silver lost the franchise deal for Cobra Kai dojos, which Barnes was in line to gain 50% of. His tantrum, and the illegal behaviour Cobra Kai displayed on the mat, saw Cobra Kai's reputation ruined.

Cobra Kai takes fans to the edge with bloody fight scene but the conclusion isn't what you'd expect.

Similarly if he was never fated to die the showrunners could have at least placed him in a critical position as they did with Miguel in season two. Equally, because he is such a fan favourite, a loss on this scale would have added more intrigue to the rivalry that has been bubbling since season one. However, one lapse of concentration when Chozen hears Johnny cry out in pain from afar allows Silver to claim the upper hand. Finding himself on the losing side of a karate showdown didn't appear to sit well with Silver. With Chozen's back turned Silver draws his sword savagely across his back, making a deep cut. The latest head of Cobra Kai, Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith), is unlike his predecessors. This is however the first time there's been something used of such deadly capacity. We had a sense that his villainous streak was sharper and more acute than Kreese's. The show is steeped in rivalries old and new but none that carried the same weight – until now. The repercussions of that event reverberated throughout the following seasons. You know, the one that featured Robby (Tanner Buchanan) kicking Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) over a second-floor railing landing him in a coma. Does that mean they went light on the fighting?

A woman does a jumping kick in the air next to a man in a dojo. Team Karate Center owner Fariborz Azhakh and his daughter, Laila, at their dojo in Woodland ...

“I don’t like a lot of the emphasis on tournaments,” said Bryan Hawkins, a Granada Hills instructor who takes his students to only one tournament every year. First, she took them into a boxing ring where they performed kicks and strike combinations, the sounds of “hi-yas!” and heavy breaths again echoing around the room. Then, they went to a set of monkey bars, where one girl fell to the mat with a thud. “I would say karate is the best sport to be telling the personal and philosophical lessons we’re exploring on the show,” Heald said. Four decades ago, the original “Karate Kid” helped introduce the sport to pop culture. The once robust market of karate magazines and martial arts publications — such as one Matsuda used to publish — had nearly disappeared. And one week, their theater was showing “Enter the Dragon,” the iconic 1973 spy thriller starring Lee as an undercover agent and martial arts master. “I took karate in a dojo for a few weeks when I was a kid,” Heald said with a laugh. “If you apply yourself to this, and you practice and fight in a smart way, you can outwit an opponent and be successful with being of larger size. After attracting millions of views through its first two seasons in 2018 and 2019, which aired on YouTube Premium, the show moved to Netflix and quickly became one of the streaming service’s most-watched titles. “The goal of all martial arts, in my opinion, is developing your competency and your character,” says Fariborz Azhakh, the 60-year-old sensei who has run Team Karate Center for four decades. “‘Cobra Kai’ and ‘Karate Kid’ made it real, so people could relate to it,” Azhakh explains.

'Cobra Kai' season 5 guest star Sean Kanan says 'the table is set' for Mike Barnes to return next season.

I think I got a B in wood shop, and I got a D in metal shop. But it was fun that Mike and Johnny very quickly became unlikely compatriots and buddies. People speculated a lot about Mike Barnes and Johnny fighting, which I don't understand because they never knew each other and there's no reason to think that they would have any beef. So it was [Jon [Hurwitz]](https://ew.com/person/jon-hurwitz/) and [Josh [Heald]](https://ew.com/person/josh-heald/), and I said, "Look guys, my only hope is that the character won't simply be a unidimensional thug, like he was in the film." But I do certainly think that the table is set for, hopefully, Mike to continue. And I'd like to say thanks so much to the fans for wanting this for so long. I would say, "Keep the faith and we shall see." Even when we were on set, they were receptive and open to suggestions I had. Luckily, they yanked it [down] pretty quickly, but some people saw it and they kept quiet about it. I think we talked in June or July and then I was filming in September. And yeah, obviously it was my hope that at some point the character would be given the jersey and told to get in the game. "I've had literally hundreds of people a week [asking me about it] through social media and when I would do conventions and appearances.

Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Kenny actor Dallas Dupree Young broke down (and then hopefully flushed!) the scene, saying: "It's so funny about it, ...

In disappointing fashion, one of the characters seemed to instantly recover from all the damage he took in the fight, undermining a lot of the dramatic weight. When I read the script, I realised that he was gone at that point." "We had so much fun working on set and we had so many jokes and laughter just involving the whole toilet scene, because it is very brutal.