Past seasons had tiny nerds and obese nerds kicking ass. You've pretty much had to completely suspend disbelief from the get go.

Miguel looked fat to me. Regardless, bulking up with muscle is not ideal for fighting much less for a karate tournament. So sure, I suppose he "looks" like he could crush the rest of 'em just like NFL linebackers "look" like they wouldn't get their asses kicked by UFC lightweights.

Conor McGregor has bulked up quite a bit since suffering his broken leg so I suppose there is some realism in Miguel ballooning up as he has.

yep, that was a thing. The karate was noticeably better in season 4. One thing still showed to me though was that Ralph Macchio has probably never played an organized sport in his life. His Karate still looks kind of weak. It's like when you watch someone throw a baseball or similar ball. you can often quickly tell a guy that has a normal sort of throwing motion compared to a guy that has no idea how to throw a ball. Macchio's kicks and karate in general just look much weaker and choreographed than most of the other people in the series.

btw, Macchio over 60 now in age so kudos to him for still looking reasonably young but his karate still looks like that from like a 70+ year old.

Wow Macchio is 60 years old and doing those stunts? Simply amazing display of the beautiful art of Kah-rah-tay. Macchio is truly the G.O.A.T. .

Been obsessed with Terry Silver's theme the last 2 days:

Well, The Shield’s best seasons are 5 and 7 (7 season show), and it’s ending is one of the finest ever on the small screen. It certainly does not drop off in quality.

Agree with everything said here. Definitely, agree the that the will they/won't they relationship with Maccio and Zabtka is tiresome now.

FWIW, in preparation for this last season, I watched like half of kk3. The best part of the movie was the over top performance by Griffith. Absolutely could have used more of that here.

It took a bit to get me into the season but overall I liked it a lot. The double KO with Johnny and Daniel was the exact moment lol

Watched KK3 again after this too. My god I forgot how ridiculous it was. Crazy Silver is an amazing camp character, hope they lean into it big time.

Looks like they will bring the Mike Barnes character back? I hope they have a thing where he comes in and shits on Daniel San and Johnny is like “this guy is awesome!” Like they’re supposed to be enemies but bond over hating Larusso.

Ya, that actor played the character to such a level that later I saw the actor in a role, think it was the show "one tree hill", where he played a concerned parent or step parent of one of the teenagers and it was so hard to picture him in a role outside of "Terry Silver". I kept seeing Terry Silver.

It was cool how they realized how nuts his character had been throughout KK3 and older Terry Silver himself described it as something like an off the rails cocaine induced crazy version of himself to Kreese in modern day.

As the season progressed he seemed to be slowly slipping back into the the old Terry Silver. That part where he roundhouse kicked the wine bottle with the wassa and theme music starting was a great scene. Hope we get the full on version in season 5.

It took me a bit longer to finish this than I'd thought. The sudden reintroduction of Stingray and how he factored in the finale was illogical and unsatisfying. It also was annoying to know that Cobra Kai only had to win one of the last two matches to win overall, as that made it clear Robby would lose. I agree that Silver was for sure a net positive, although I worry his schtick will wear thin pretty quickly, as opposed to Kreese, who they were able to credibly sustain as a "villain" for several seasons.

So next season plays out as Daniel uses Chozen to get around the no more Miyagi-do stipulation? And that leaves Johnny where exactly? Maybe Johnny tracks down Barnes, who, rather than re-allying with Silver, wants to work against him? Or since Robbie isn't in school, he becomes Johnny's surrogate teacher at a new dojo?

Clearly all the kids will be around for at least another season, as that was the junior prom; but if they're banking on Kenny and Anthony as being able to carry the show when the current crop of regulars age out, that could be a problem. But I guess they have 1-2 seasons to figure that out, introducing even more new characters in the process I suppose.

No be there

Season 5 September 9th

That is way further away than I expected. Last season took a double KO to the face to get me truly on board but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit

What did you expect?

September is actually way earlier than I had expected. Last two seasons dropped on 01/01 and 12/31 so I thought they’d probably go that route again.

Was thinking summer. They did Ozark’s last episodes very quickly and I thought they’d do the same to keep the subs.

Had been almost two years between the last two season of Ozark.

They just added a couple episodes to season 4 of Ozark and split it into two parts, something that's been established for final seasons by the Sopranos back in the day.

That's not the case for Cobra Kai because we already know there will be a season 6.

Previous trailers have had me very eager for the upcoming season. This one does not.

Every season is a fun and fast binge, but i instantly forget it when its done.

2 weeks. Pretty pumped

100% agree with this statement and this is really the only nonsensical, guilty pleasure show I watch