With how well Cobra Kai has performed during its entire run, I can’t help but be really sad that it’s ending with its sixth season. Yes, that means the creators get to end it with what they’d envisioned, but still.
What I don’t like is that we’re going to be getting this final season in three separate chunks. I assume this decision had a little to do with the strikes, and maybe it also makes sense from a storytelling perspective, but given how quickly I consumed these first five episodes, I think I’m going to go crazy waiting until November for the next part. I’m also a little bit sad that I probably won’t be able to see a good chunk of the cast next weekend at my local comic con. I hope they show up at some other ones nearby over the next few years!
Anyway, at the start of this season there is finally “peace in the Valley.” Even though Kresse is unaccounted for, he’d be crazy to show up unless he wanted immediately sent back to prison. And with Silver out of the picture, all of the rest of the brainwashed Cobra Kai members have made their way to Miyagi-Do. Daniel, Johnny, and Chozen are teaching as harmoniously as they can, which is good considering they are adults. But Robby and Miguel have seemed to work through their issues for the good of their future blended family and are working together to get the same results for Sam and Tory.
Or course, this show might be kind of boring if peace lasted a full season, so why even have it last past one episode? They didn’t just give us whiplash though. There are plenty of things in play to make arrangements tense. For instance, since the Sekai Taikai is coming up, Daniel and Johnny are sort of slipping back into their old ways about teaching. I’m happy to say that they resolve those differences more quickly than I’d assumed they would. Though Robby finally beat Miguel in a fight determining who the tournament’s captain will be, there still seems to be peace between them for now. Tory, on the other hand, had life’s hardest truth thrown at her and she felt the “help” she was getting still wasn’t fair, so she makes a bold choice at the end of the fifth episode.
Other conflicts pop up between our “second string” of main characters, but this is perhaps the first time I’ve felt a little overwhelmed by the vastness and depth of this cast. Not everyone is going to get their fair share of screen time, and that’s felt even more so with just five episodes. I’m sure everyone will get their time in the spotlight, but it makes me nervous to see how everything is going to settle in the end. With that being said, I am still so excited to see where this all goes! And sad. Don’t forget the sadness. But in the meantime, I promise you’ll like what we’ve been given so far!