Sunday, May 13, 2018

The Cobra Kai Series on YouTube Red is the best thing to hit the internet since porn


Seeing this tweet was one of the best fucking things in my life, and I'm not even kidding:



Before I go any further, this blog needs a soundtrack.  Hit play below to enhance your experience while scrolling through the blog:

**NO MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS BECAUSE I'M NOT AN ASSHOLE**


First of all, yes this blog is going to be biased as shit because I would probably watch anything involving that bad ass Cobra Kai logo.  This is my phone case:


and I once went into work dressed like this:



But hey, I'm not the only one who thinks this series is the shit:


Serious question though: how did a gem like this end up on YouTube Red?  YouTube Red's value proposition is shit.  It's $9.99 a month so you can watch videos on YouTube ad free and you get access to YouTube originals.  Prior to Cobra Kai, I can't think of anything worth paying $9.99 a month to watch.  Thanks to a 30-day free trial, I didn't have to pay anything to watch this either.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic.  The premise of the Cobra Kai series is simple, it picks up 34 years after the 1984 All Valley Karate Championships where Daniel LaRusso hits Johnny Lawrence in the face with a crane kick for the win.  The flashbacks to the movie that are weaved into the series are pure gold.  Serious throwback stuff for us children of the 80's.  But yeah, no fucking Hilary Swank trying to be the next Karate kid.  No Jackie Chan and Will Smith's kid in that abortion of a re-boot (which I refused to watch on principle).  There aren't even any callbacks or references to the Karate Kid 2 because that movie was a horseshit money grab in an attempt to make the Karate Kid a franchise.

What makes Cobra Kai so good is that not only does the rivalry of Johnny and Daniel in their 50's entertain us, but the next layer of character interaction is fantastic: There's Miguel who is Johnny's star pupil, who goes to the same high school as Samantha LaRusso (Daniel's daughter if the last name didn't give it away) and Johnny's estranged son Robby, who's also the same age as Miguel and Samantha.  Watching the stories intertwine and unfold is what earns this a 100% on the tomato meter.  Because if the internet agrees on something, it has to be true.

(side note: Samantha LaRusso is a total cutie.  You might think I'm a pedophile for saying this, but I looked it up on Wikipedia and the actress that plays her is 22, so my thoughts while creepy, are at least not illegal.  You be the judge:)





Also - in case you think Johnny has lost a step.  You are wrong:




Perhaps the best part of all of this is that the series isn't so one-sided the way the original movie was with the 80's movie formula of the kid that gets bullied becoming the hero and the guy who bullied him was a complete asshole.  No, there's two sides to this coin, neither guy is perfect, both are flawed, just a couple of guys trying to get through life in the valley. 

This series also makes Barney Stinson's take on the Karate Kid more plausible:


But perhaps my favorite YouTube video about the Karate Kid which is sure to get more views now, is this:


TLDR - You need to watch this fucking show.  If you don't like it, tough shit.  Season 2 comes out in 2019 and I feel bad for you because you have nothing to look forward to.  Oh what?  GoT comes back in 2019?  Big Fucking deal.  I don't have a GoT phone case.
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