If the creative team behind Cobra Kai were complacent, the Karate Kid sequel probably would have just been a five-minute short on Funny or Die. "What if Johnny, the vicious Aryan heartthrob villain from The Karate Kid, were actually the hero?
Pretty funny, right? The end." Probably "ambitious" still isn't the first word you would ever use to describe Cobra Kai, a half-hour dramedy that represents the precarious nature of Peak TV in that a bona fide breakout from a fledgling streaming service — YouTube Red turned YouTube Premium — still couldn't avoid getting cut adrift before moving to the higher-profile climes of Netflix.
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