The Fall

Most of this episode is the tournament, but it's much more than just a tournament as character development deepens and there are many emotional payoffs to earlier setups. The Carrie Underwood cameo was a bit weird. I'm here to watch Cobra Kai, not a cheesy Carrie Underwood performance/music video, but I won't let that dock my overall score. A fun, exciting episode. And the fight choreography was very good with excellent directing/camera work. The fighting just gets better as the seasons go on. Solid 10.

This is an extremely well done tournament episode within Cobra Kai setting up what would be the second best finale at that point in the series (season 2 having the strongest finale). It seems a lot of people had an issue with the Carrie Underwood music scene and while I must agree that it was slightly cringe I didn't let it get to me, as there's so much good in this episode that is massively outweighs that singular nitpick. The whole fourth season had been building up to the all valley tournament, however there are changes this year due to the new skills competition and girls division, both great additions to the tournament. However the clear highlight of this episode to me is the jaw dropping cliffhanger ending, probably the biggest cliffhanger since the end of season 2. I still remember watching it for the first time and being absolutely floored, still to this day it makes me shudder. Excellent episode.

Carrie freaking underwood are you kidding me she is the worst and it's such a gimmick hacks singer to do this BS montage sequence with. There was no need for her to be in this episode at all, she is on the same level as Hasselhoff.

This episode is all tournament, but it was done well and a lot of fun. Probably not a lot of surprises, but that's ok as long as it's done well.

I felt like the right people won, and in the right manner. You didnt have three-week novices going to the last second against the best of the veterans, or anything stupid like that.

The last two episodes saved this season. For whatever reasons episodes 3 through 8 were cornball juvenile nonsense that simply did not work and became a chore to watch. Thank the Maker everything got back on track with this episode. After an out of place musical cameo things get moving and instead of doing it all by the book the writers give its characters true conflict, growth, choices to make and prices to pay. It's also quite thrilling during the tournament matches, even if you can guess some of what's going to happen. And naturally it ends on one hell of a great cliffhanger leading into the 10th episode, easily one of the best episodes of the entire series.