Cobra Kai

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So YouTube (Red) has recently launched Cobra Kai, a spinoff of the 80's Karate Kid movies following Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso in the modern day. It's surprisingly not shitty nostalgia mining (though there is some pandering, it seems to mostly point toward being overly nostalgic contributing to being socially malajusted).

Also, some of Johnny's quotes are gold. "Women aren't meant to fight, they have tiny, hollow bones."
 
Watched the first two episodes, and I dig it so far. It's very obvious that not a lot of money went into the show, but I'll take "toned-down Eastbound & Down" over a lazy retread any day.

Plus it's the first YouTube Red show that isn't horrible, so that's something.
 
I haven't seen them yet but I'm very excited about this. Huge kk fan.
 
So this was the first youtube red series that actually caught my attention. Just finished the first two episodes. Not sure if I’m gonna subscribe to Youtube Red for it, but the show’s actually pretty good and I’m not even a huge Karate Kid fan. The story isn’t the most original thing, but the characters, writing and acting is enjoyable enough to make up for it in my opinion.
 
I'm personally kinda butthurt they keep randomly doing that sneaky misdirect on the youtube homepage button.
After accidentally clicking it a shameful number of times I have made it my personal mission to shit up the comment section with as many "nigger x 100" and "Bush did 9/11" posts.
 
I just finished it. It's good. Some of it is excellent. Some is just okay. It's decently written and well acted. It's nice to see that there are still writers who understand that "who" and "why" are far more important to a story than "what" and "how".
 
So I caved and got the Red Tube (I know it's not really called that lol.) free trial. (Still not gonna pay for it). 5 episodes in, and I love the shit out of this series.
 
I downloaded it from a cytube feed for a buddy and caught some of it through the part where he kicks the shit out of people in the lunchroom.
Seems cute enough. I wasn't into Karate Kid either back then but they do a good enough job with Cliffs Notes in flashbacks for people who just osmosed the idea through pop culture.
 
Well I just got done with Cobra Kai and daresay this show is amazing. This is perhaps some of the best soft rebooting I have ever seen. I don't want to give too much away but at least get the free trial to watch this show as it honestly really worth it.
 
I watched the first two free episodes and really liked what I saw, so I got the 30-day free YouTube Red trial to binge the rest, and frankly, this series is way better than it has any right to be. Sure, it's cheesy at times, but it's enjoyably cheesy like the original Karate Kid films.

What surprised me most was how much I sympathized with Johnny over Daniel because frankly. the latter came off as a smarmy prick (although the scene where he visits Miyagi's grave is really touching) while the former, while rough around the edges, was a lot more down to earth. A lot of people have pointed out how in the original Karate Kid film, Daniel is the one who antagonizes Johnny more often than not, and it was very smart to call attention to that and tell Johnny's side of the story. It definitely painted the films it continues on from in a very different light and made me like Daniel a lot less.
 
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