Cobra Kai Season 6, Part 2: 8 Things We Loved (and 4 We Didn’t)

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With the merchandise of part 2 of Cobra Kai play six, lone 5 episodes stay successful the show. It’s an incredibly bittersweet feeling if you’ve been watching the amusement since the beginning. Thankfully, these 5 penultimate episodes—now connected Netflix—are a ton of fun. They’re Cobra Kai doing what Cobra Kai does best, telling a fun, character-driven communicative filled with enactment and adoration for The Karate Kid franchise. Here’s our reappraisal of things we liked (and didn’t like) successful portion two. Full spoilers below.

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We loved: The Sekai Taikai

That’s a beauteous wide generalization since the full play is astatine the Sekai Taikai but, specifically, we’re talking astir the lawsuit itself. All of the events are truthful cool, astir arsenic if Squid Game met the Royal Rumble. The enactment is precise well-choreographed too. Together, it does a fantastic occupation of simultaneously advancing communicative and quality portion giving america breathtaking enactment delivered successful unexpected ways.

We loved: The caller characters

Axel and Zara forever, right? The caller badasses, arsenic good arsenic the emergence of Kwan arsenic a morganatic problem, truly helped grow the scope of the play beyond the accepted rivalries. Lewis Tan arsenic their evil sensai was sensational too.

We didn’t love: Kwan’s death

Ending the play by sidesplitting a main quality is simply a bold choice, but wherefore did it person to beryllium Kwan? We emotion Kwan. He was truthful dynamic. So diabolical. And, of course, that’s wherefore you termination him due to the fact that helium made america care. Damnit, though. Now we’ll ne'er get a Kwan movie sequel.

We loved: The gang’s each here

Isolating these episodes into a azygous determination with astir each main quality truly forced the amusement to walk much clip with everyone. We emotion seeing each the boys successful 1 room. We emotion seeing Devon rotation her eyes arsenic they complain. And, arsenic things determination on, the bonding that happens and the elevation of each their karate works successful tandem with each of it.

We loved: The Terry Silver reveal

We present astatine io9 are unabashed Terry Silver stans. So erstwhile helium showed backmost up – successful a blistery tub nary little – I virtually cheered. Sure, it’s a spot repetitious and a small spot of a cheat but, we don’t care. So is Terry Silver himself! We anticipation helium has a spot much of a relation to play successful the last episodes too.

We didn’t love: Robbie and Tori

The thought of Tori and Robbie being captains connected other teams was ripe but the mode it played retired was symbolic of, maybe, the biggest occupation with these episodes. The 2 are soooooo melodramatic. How galore times did Robbie oregon Tori screw up arsenic a effect of a slow-motion glimpse implicit astatine the different one? It got to beryllium a small much.

We loved: Miguel

To beryllium fair, we ever emotion Miguel but these episodes truly are immoderate of his champion showcases successful a while. Xolo Maridueña is arguably the MVP with his fierce carnal show and affectional range, particularly knowing helium astir apt should beryllium captain, but helium does the skipper happening by bolstering Robbie instead.

We loved: The Miyagi dream

This 1 is definite to beryllium arguable and, we’d imagine, galore radical would enactment this connected their “Didn’t emotion list.” But, yes, deepfake speech (which was approved by Pat Morita’s household – much connected that adjacent week) – the thought of seeing Daniel with Miyagi again was conscionable truthful exciting. It truly shook Daniel. Plus, recasting Miyagi’s younger, much brutal mentation was incredibly cool. We inactive don’t cognize the grade of this portion of Miyagi’s beingness but this country was a fantastic tease.

We didn’t love: Pregnancy scare

It was atrocious capable sidesplitting a main quality so, thankfully, Cobra Kai didn’t besides termination a baby. Still, Johnny and Miguel flying backmost to Los Angeles from Barcelona to marque definite Carmen and the babe were harmless was precise weird. It happens truthful abruptly and is resolved truthful rapidly that you can’t assistance but wonder, what did this add? How costly were these flights? How atrocious was the jetlag? Too galore questions for not capable payoff.

We loved: The cliffhanger

While sidesplitting Kwan was surely a bummer, the monolithic combat it happened during was not. We got to spot fundamentally each showdown that had been boiling implicit the people of the episodes and past it ends connected a immense question of “What’s next?” Clearly, Cobra Kai tragically mislaid its skipper which radical each implicit the satellite watched unfold connected TV. How volition that alteration things? Who volition triumph the Seikai Taikai? Where? And volition it adjacent matter? There’s truthful overmuch to deliberation about.

We loved: Chozen romances

If Chozen lone had the Kumiko rejection (which we’re definite was a misunderstanding) it would person been great. But to spot helium and Cobra Kai Sensai Kim make a happening aft everything that happened was hilarious, romantic, and precise important. Kim uses her choler astatine him to thatch Tori and we get to spot Chozen successful a full caller light.

We didn’t love: Kidnapping

As overmuch arsenic we loved seeing Terry Silver back, his program to acceptable up and kidnap Daniel was questionable, to accidental the least. Sure, it fto america research a spot much of Barcelona – which was ever invited – but what was his extremity game? Was helium going to termination him? Just fto him miss the remainder of the event? It was a spot implicit the top, adjacent by Cobra Kai standards.

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