The Third Season of Cobra Kai Delivers A Two-Piece Combo

When it was first announced that Netflix had acquired the rights to Cobra Kai, I was absolutely ecstatic. I was one of the five and a half million viewers who watched the original pilot on YouTube on the first day it was released. I was one of the many who got a YouTubeRed (yeah, that’s how long ago the first season was) just to finish watching the first season. It was good enough that I kept my YouTube Premium account to watch the second season. After the brutality that was the ‘high school free-for-all’, I knew that there was going to be a third season and I knew I was going to watch that $#!% the moment it became available.  COBRA KAI (L to R) ROSE BIANCO as ROSA, VANESSA RUBIO as CARMEN, and XOLO MARIDUE„A as MIGUEL DIAZ of COBRA KAI Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2020 Crucially, the move from YouTube to Netflix meant that I could much more readily convince other people to watch this show on both my credentials as a journalist and the impassioned pleas of me being a complete nerd. As such, I do implore you to watch Cobra Kai, especially now that season three is dropping on New Year’s Day. It’s easily one of my favorite television series currently airing.

The third season of Cobra Kai picks up a couple of weeks after the season two finale and things are looking incredibly rough from the get. Johnny has reached yet another rock bottom after Robby (his actual son and Daniel’s student, played by Tanner Buchana) kicked Miguel, h…