Cobra Kai was ok. A friend recommended it, and at first, the episodes were funny, epic, eventful, and exciting: everything you'd want in a TV series, but the writing quickly took a turn for the worse, or in more descriptive words, DETERIORATED, as the show progressed.
The characters got really annoying and the plot lines were absurd. In fact, it brought back bad memories of watching Riverdale in my youthful pre-teen days.
The amount of making out and STUFF I didn't sign up for when humbly looking for some karate thrills (is that too much to ask for?) had me convinced that I was watching an extra steamy episode of Too Hot to Handle. Seriously, if I wanted to watch people perform some non-covid friendly maneuvers every two minutes, I would've just binged some Gossip Girl.
The bottom line - if you are not a die-hard karate kid fan, this ain't it chief.