Cobra Kai Season 6: Part 2 Trailer Goes Global
The 80s are back, and they’re ready to sweep modernity’s leg! Today, Netflix released a trailer for Cobra Kai Season 6: Part 2, the second of three parts of its final season. Now that Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai have selected their champions, it’s time for the rival dojos to meet at the Sekai Taikai tournament. But Cobra Kai isn’t the only dojo that has it in for the Americans, as another nemesis emerges in the Iron Dragons. Ralph Macchio and William Zabka once again play Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, the former enemies from The Karate Kid who’ve joined forces to shape the next generation of karate champions, with Martin Kove also back as evil sensei John Kreese. Xolo Maridueña, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Peyton List, Jacob Bertrand, and Courtney Henggeler also return from previous seasons. All five episodes of Cobra Kai Season 6: Part 2 arrive on Netflix on November 15, 2024, and you can see the trailer below:
There isn’t much I look forward to as much as Cobra Kai, and I won’t have it much longer, so the promise of the middle set of episodes for season 6 is bittersweet. I’m glad it’s almost here, but I’m sad it’s almost gone. I imagine that’ll only get worse when the trailer for Part 3 comes out. But for now, we’re only partway to the end, and there’s plenty of good karate action and swipes at modern woke culture ahead next month. The personal stakes are high, as Daniel and Johnny’s different philosophies on life and martial arts threaten to butt heads once again, Tory has defected to Cobra Kai, and John Kreese is more determined than ever to crush his former star pupil and the Jersey punk who defeated him. And the whole world is watching now because they’re fighting in the Sekai Taikai, a world championship tournament held in Barcelona. This is a good expansion on the previous season’s themes, with Johnny and Daniel moving on from saving their community to trying to purge Kreese’s evil from the sport on a world stage. As much as I hate to see it go, I get why this has to be the end of the line for the show, because where do you go from here?
But my favorite part of the trailer is the implied threat to America’s standing and what it could mean for a show as in love with the 80s and classic Americana as Cobra Kai. The sensei of a new evil karate dojo called the Iron Dragons gives an anti-America speech, insulting us, calling us (not in so many words) weak, stupid, unprepared, and destined to lose in Barcelona, which he correctly pronounces “Bar-theh-lona.” And what happens next? Johnny Lawrence smugly responds, “It’s Bar-suh-lona, dipshit.”If this were anything else, I would assume the show was going to portray Johnny as an idiot and mock Americans through him because that’s what Hollywood is now. But this is Cobra Kai, and I know that’s not what they’re up to. And as if to assuage anyone’s fears, Johnny then tells his students to “wipe the smirks off their ugly faces.” I don’t know how any American doesn’t get up and cheer at that. This is the mentality that separated entertainment from generations past with the anti-American swill of today, and that’s what Cobra Kai has been about from the beginning: championing the old ways, the masculine mentality, the foot in the ass of a nihilistic youth. Beer-drinking, broad-loving, fist-fighting, flag-waving Johnny Lawrence is going to kick ass for America, and these miserable thugs are gonna be humiliated by everything they hate. And that’s why I love Cobra Kai.
Let us know what you think of the Cobra Kai Season 6: Part 2 trailer in the comments!
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