Best of the Best

"It was perfect. Perfect. Everything, down to the last minute details."

Absolutely blew me away after the painfully bland episodes I had to bare previously. Peyton List's performance was phenomenal, I really love what they did with Tory's character and it just brought me back to why I loved this series in the first place.

Finally the character's stories are going somewhere, finally there is conflict for this season and it is the strongest conflict they could have chosen. And finally the camera directing is not nauseatingly bad. I am really annoyed they waited this long to drop these banger episodes and hit us with a cliffhanger and 4 month wait for the next part of the season.

Peyton is going to go places with performance like this and I wish her all the success she has been working for.

Like each and every time , with each and every season this series is perfect, awesome and superb. The character development is superb, the pace of story is superb and the acting of leads also superb.

A different kind of nostalgia we can feel while watching this show. The character of jhony is like anything a bod boy learning everyday and trying to be the best and win the past battle in present.. Also the character of john kreese is pretty adamant and rude which has its own attraction.

The difference in between the thinking process of teens and elders can easily be understood after watching tbe show. M need of money, importance of getting settled in life on right time and the importance of mentor is the essence of this show.

Director is capable, story writer has plan and actors have skills and execution to fulfill all needs.. One word superb..

This season so far is a mess. Seems to me like they're running out of ideas and they try force drama where it doesn't belong.. Characters starting to fight for no reason, forced rivalries etc... I will admit this season had it's moments and the slumber party thingy arranged by Johnny was brilliant but everything feels rushed and it suffers from too much dead air... And Kreese is getting boring.. And his mentor has got to be at least 135 years old by now.. People don't live that long

I am worried about the state of this show. Seems to me like they had a hard time filling 5 episodes, it got predictable and repetitive very quickly.. Up until this point I liked this show but now I'm sceptical.

I love Cobra Kai, but it definitely peaked third season. Everything after that was pretty good but this is horrid. I called every plot point an episode before it happened, plot holes are almost unlimited, and it's just repeating storylines. I'm genuinely getting tired of Netflix butchering things this bad. The only redeeming hope will be stranger things 5. Now it did have some okay parts which is why I gave it a six, but this series is starting to over stay its welcome. I hate that it has to go but it's looking bad from here on out. I also have to say that we already know the winner, and that's how bad this is.

Cobra Kai is now starting it's last lap after a marathon run but has annoyingly been split it up into three parts. I was surprised by this final run as I genuinely thought the last season was it all wrapped up, but the producers clearly feel they can squeeze more out of it. So how was this part one of three of this extended final season? Unlike many other self styled online media commentators, I very much loved it and very much looking forward to the forthcoming installments.

This is clearly a show that is tying up all the loose ends, with friendships, relationships, work and post-school thoughts at the forefront. Then there is the hidden menace of Kreese! There's still much to ponder as well as a new mystery, and yes some characters go back to being at each others throats despite old hatchets being buried.

The show retains its humour with the long suffering Amanda Larusso as bewildered as ever on being stuck in this 'Twilight Zone'. This has been a slow burn of a season, and is the better for it. Johnny Lawrence is to be a dad but remains immature whilst Danny Larusso is still not as balanced as he thinks he is. Yet we all still love the emotional ride.

The stunning thing is that this show has retained it's quality in writing and humour. There aren't many series in the past generation or two which have maintained as high a standard as this. Give or take some ropey moments, the show managed to just get back on track and keep us hooked.