Now with Cobra Kai Season 4 getting rave reviews, plus Cobra Kai Season 5 out now, it’s looking like the Netflix drama will be continuing its strong performance for the streaming service. While it started out as a YouTube Originals TV series, Cobra Kai has since made the leap over to Netflix where it’s gone from a humble first season to one of the most talked about Netflix series of the past few years, thanks to a strong season 2 and season 3. With Johnny Lawrence as the lead, the dynamic completely changes the way we view The Karate Kid series and really rounds out a story that has stretched across decades. Here he plays the protagonist, unwillingly starting a dojo from scratch, re-sparking his rivalry with Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso, and training high school kids in the art.
William Zabka was ostensibly the villain in the film franchise as Johnny Lawrence. Although the production, and sometimes the acting, plays out like a B-grade after-school special, this karate (and high school) drama brings back the two leads from 1984 classic The Karate Kid (that is, William Zabka and Ralph Macchio) and takes a many-years-later approach to track their life after the events of the original films. Few TV shows have managed to do what Cobra Kai has done.
