Cobra Kai Review

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This is a review of the series, Cobra Kai, available from YouTube Red.

*** Spoiler alert ***









The premise of the series is simple: the life of Daniel Larusso and Johnny Lawrence in 2018. Naturally, they are not the students so much as they are the instructors.

Pros:
Great acting. Good choreography. Good story line. Good writing.  Just plain fun. 

Cons:
The Rifleman must admit, it is hard to find fault with the series.  The only complaint might be how quickly all the students make "black belt." However, given that this was also true of Daniel in the first film, and this series has many throwbacks, it is almost understandable. 

Notes
This is basically a 5 hour movie, chopped up into 30-minute episodes.
There are a lot of acknowledgments of the original films. All three of them. There may be acknowledgments of The Next Karate Kid and Jackie Chan's reboot, but I haven't viewed those enough to know. 
The Rifleman enjoyed how the writers tackled teaching martial arts to millennials.
Though there was no nudity, it would definitely have been PG13 for language.
Most remakes are less than the original.  This is not. 

Overall: solid. 8/10
Not only does the Rifleman approve, so does the sister, brother, and brother-in-law.

Can't wait for Season 2 in 2019. 


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