Cobra Kai

As we already learned in the season 5 trailer, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) doesn't want to do karate anymore, at least at the start of the new episodes, ...

This means Kay likely worked on the first few episodes of the new season, or at least the third episode which is dedicated to him. [ Cobra Kai](https://netflixlife.com/netflix-original/cobra-kai/) is not currently on Kay’s IMDb list, it’s entirely possible he worked on season 5 and it just hasn’t been credited on his page yet. As we already learned in the season 5 trailer, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) doesn’t want to do karate anymore, at least at the start of the new episodes, leaving Daniel to work with Chozen Toguchi (Yuji Okumoto) on a game-plan. [Cobra Kai season 5](https://netflixlife.com/2022/09/05/cobra-kai-season-5-cast-whos-new-returning-karate-kid/) is finally here, meaning it’s time to get lost in the drama of the dojos. Who was Jeff Kay and what did he have to do with the Netflix Original? The new installment consists of 10 episodes, following Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) as he tries to take down Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) and his plan to take control of the valley with new Cobra Kai locations.

In addition to Karate Kid stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, who reunited for Cobra Kai and have remained on the series since the beginning, with every new ...

Alicia Hannah-Kim is playing the role, and we are introduced to Kim in Season 5 of Cobra Kai as a new instructor for Cobra Kai, per [Deadline](https://deadline.com/2022/05/cobra-kai-cast-alicia-hannah-kim-season-5-dallas-dupree-young-series-regular-1235031668/). It’s always fun to add on new cast members or upgrade cast members in a show, and Cobra Kai does seem to do that in the best way. Last month, [Deadline](https://deadline.com/2022/08/cobra-kai-season-5-sean-kanan-alicia-hannah-kim-first-look-photos-1235087909/) shared some early look photos of Kanan's return to the Karate Kid universe for Season 5. He’s also appeared in a few films as well, such as Sons of Italy, My Trip to the Dark Side and more, but Cobra Kai will mark his return to the famous karate series. It’s had [some badass fights,](https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/cobra-kai-the-biggest-and-most-intense-fight-scenes-so-far) some sick moments, and some truly awesome story that has continued the legacy of the Karate Kid series. While you're surely familiar with the stars of the Netflix series, here are some new and familiar faces who we'll be seeing in Season 5.

Netflix's Cobra Kai has clocked in 100%, 90%, 90% and 95% critics scores for the first four seasons, and now season 5 has arrived with another 100% score, ...

Season 5 looks to be another high quality offering from the team, and it’s not a matter of if it hits number one on Netflix, but when, and for how long it will stay there. Cobra Kai, however, is in the rare Netflix category of shows that never have to fear renewal, and so far, Netflix doesn’t have to worry about it putting out a stinker of a season, which has not happened yet. The show has been a star-maker, allowing Xolo Mariduena to nab the role of Blue Beetle for DC, and has elevated Peyton List to become a bonafide Gen Z superstar online. It’s almost the perfect Netflix show, one with a low budget that both critics and fans love and a seemingly endless fountain ideas of how to continue the story as characters shuffle between dojos and compete in yearly karate tournaments. 100% from fans too, but that’s based on a tiny amount of reviews, given that it just arrived a few hours ago. But finally C) almost always reviews very, very well, unlike a lot of other Netflix top hits as of late.

Welcome back to the Valley! A recap of “Long, Long Way From Home,” episode 1 and the premiere of season five of 'Cobra Kai' on Netflix.

We’ll have to wait to see how Tory is handling the revelation that her All Valley victory was based on a lie and how Kreese is handling prison — as well as checking in with Demetri, Eli, Kenny, and Anthony LaRusso, none of whom get any attention in this premiere. At the end of the episode, we see exactly what that means: Chozen is prepared to become a sensei at Cobra Kai and take it down from the inside as a mole. When the Australian guys who robbed Miguel try the same gambit with Johnny, he and his son easily handle the situation, the first big fight of the season. It all feels a bit predictable: There’s a minor local threat in the form of a few Australian guys who take almost all of Miguel’s cash, followed by a case of mistaken identity when Miguel meets the wrong Hector, followed by the moment when he accidentally stumbles upon the real Hector. Daniel doesn’t need to convey to Chozen how much of a threat Silver is; deception was a cornerstone of Kim’s teaching, and Silver uses the same tactics. Of course, Daniel has no real intention of letting Silver win, and now he has a new ally: Chozen Toguchi, his onetime rival who almost killed him back in 1985 in The Karate Kid Part II.

Crossing the streams with its sequels, the fifth season of "Cobra Kai" features heavy dollops of the second and third "The Karate Kid" movies while continue ...

Five seasons in, the show has already surpassed any reasonable expectations, developing a life of its own that proves it wasn't just "Karate Kid"-ing around. The seasons have also begun to exhibit a familiar pattern, starting and finishing strong while dragging a bit in the middle. The kids, in fact, have as many shifting allegiances as the elder generation, whose AARP-eligible karate masters continue to prove remarkably spry.

Cobra Kai returns with the evil boss of all evil bosses, a bunch of scores to settle, and a karate empire to thwart in another winning installment.

for a show to have and probably the best way to honor a film series that utilized dumb teenage anger for the sake of action. There's just a moment of very poor decision-making on the part of our heroes that feels like it should lead them down a much different path than it does. Space travel, world building, rendering technology, and more are all covered here in our IGN Performance Preview.](/videos/starfield-performance-preview) [The Last of Us Part 1 - PS5 vs PS4 vs PS3The Last of Us Part 1 on PS5 has now arrived! That doesn't mean there's no path toward Season 6, since a very big story opens up for our heroes in Episode 8, but there are just elements of this ending that play like the end-end if need be. Just to be at a point now where Daniel and Johnny can operate as full friends, and see the actual benefits in each others' style (this season has a fun element where the two seem to switch roles for a while), is incredible. The same can be said for Daniel and Chozen (Yuji Okumoto), and it's actually Chozen's role this season that shines the brightest. This is the first post-All-Valley Tournament storyline since the show's second season so, much like that year, there's aftermath to deal with, regrouping and recouping to contend with, and healing in need of happening. Thomas Ian Griffith's wealthy and malevolent Terry Silver is now in charge of Cobra Kai and has grand plans for the expansion of the dojo. As usual, Cobra Kai is filled with drama born of simple misunderstandings but it also earns the hell out of its reckonings and reconciliations with creative tricks and rewarding exchanges. Five seasons into Cobra Kai and there's a definite pattern at play, though it still has room for twists and turns. On top of this, Johnny is now more forward-thinking than ever, having to consider the future in ways he never anticipated while also wanting to his son Robbie (Tanner Buchanan) and his surrogate son Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) to make amends. Cobra Kai's fifth season breaks tradition with the last two outings, which have premiered at year's end, with a September debut and a conclusion that, for the first time, feels like default closure should the series not return for another run.

After getting his face kicked in by his rival Daniel LaRusso (Macchio) at a karate tournament, Johnny spent much of the next few decades drinking and moping. In ...

In Cobra Kai’s early years, for example, Robby drifted back and forth from Cobra Kai to Miyagi-Do, as he struggled to come to terms with Johnny and eventually wound up expelled from school after accidentally injuring Miguel in a brawl. The longer it goes on, the closer and closer it’s getting to becoming just as goofy and over-the-top as the original films. Most of the people on Cobra Kai want to get their life in order, gain confidence, exorcise their tortured pasts, or find acceptance in a group of fellow outsiders. When Cobra Kai was at its best, it had an uncanny knack for turning facile concepts from The Karate Kid movies into genuinely thoughtful and compelling drama. Daniel, who was almost the villain of the early Cobra Kai episodes, has resumed his role as the franchise’s stalwart and indomitable hero, while Johnny, who was depicted as well-meaning but deeply misguided, has turned into a lovable oaf who gets along with everyone. They allowed Cobra Kai to see how those old high school stereotypes featured in The Karate Kid looked in a modern context, and to emphasize one of the show’s key themes: That abuse perpetuates abuse in a never-ending cycle of violence. The early years of the show forced viewers to rethink Johnny and Daniel and their relationship. Griffith is effective as the brilliant Silver, but the character is so utterly devoid of redeeming characteristics, and so beyond any sort of audience sympathy, that he doesn’t fit the rest of Cobra Kai’s fictional universe, where everyone on both sides of the Cobra Kai vs. After getting his face kicked in by his rival Daniel LaRusso (Macchio) at a karate tournament, Johnny spent much of the next few decades drinking and moping. In the meantime, Daniel grew into a successful businessman — and even sort of a cocky jerk. The season ends on yet another big cliffhanger, and in interviews series star [Ralph Macchio](https://screencrush.com/tags/ralph-macchio/) has revealed that the production already shot footage intended for Season 6, if and when Netflix picks up Cobra Kai for more episodes. Johnny Lawrence ( [William Zabka](https://screencrush.com/tags/william-zabka/)), who was the BMOC in high school and the Cobra Kai dojo, grew up to become a total loser.

It's fun to see the villains of two Karate Kid sequels connecting over dinner. A recap of “Molé,” episode 2 of season five of 'Cobra Kai' on Netflix.

• Possibly the funniest moment of the episode comes after Johnny suggests they “shake the tree to get the apples.” “Or we could climb the tree ourselves,” Robby suggests. I have to think this isn’t the end of Tory’s crisis of conscience, of course. It makes for a heartwarming moment of deep respect from Johnny, who says, “That’s about the most badass thing I’ve ever seen.” It goes a familiar route: People keep warning Miguel about his dad being bad news, but he wants to believe the kindness and intelligence he sees are genuine. And it’s fun, as a fan of the franchise, to see the villains of two Karate Kid sequels connecting over dinner, relating over their rivalries with the same man. But it’s a satisfying endpoint for now, and I’m glad Miguel will soon be back in the show’s main orbit again. It does feel a bit abrupt how quickly it ends, with Miguel realizing his dad is exactly the man Carmen said he was — and presumably forgiving her for lying to him. He even demands to see Miguel’s phone, though he stops and apologizes just before he can notice a photo of Carmen. It’s basically a warning that the word “honor” is going to pop up 50 times in this episode. When she asks him why he’s a sensei, he simply answers, “Honor.” Reflecting on the time he thought he lost his honor but found it again, he wisely says, “No one can take honor from you. “Long, Long Way From Home” set up an irresistible storyline with Chozen helping defeat Cobra Kai from the inside, but by the end of the aptly named “Molé,” everything is out in the open. The episode begins with a flashback to Okinawa in 1972, as a young Chozen gets schooled about honor by his uncle Sato (last played by the late Danny Kamekona in The Karate Kid Part II).

The wait is over; Cobra Kai has finally returned to Netflix for its fifth season. Friday marked the debut of Cobra Kai Season 5, picking up the beloved ...

The gap between Season 4 and Season 5 was only nine months, but that's because Season 5 was already nearing the end of production when Season 4 was released. Netflix's hasn't officially renewed Cobra Kai for a sixth season, though that seems like a sure thing at this point, given the show's popularity and the open ending of Season 5. The final moments of the season show that Kreese's redemption arc in prison was all a ploy, as he was organizing an escape the entire time. Friday marked the debut of Cobra Kai Season 5, picking up the beloved story in the aftermath of Season 4's All-Valley tournament. With John Kreese in prison and Silver trying to take Cobra Kai global, he was established as the one to beat. As you'll find, by the time the Season 5 finale rolls around, there is a very clear direction for Cobra Kai in Season 6.

Ralph Macchio and William Zabka attend Netflix's 'Cobra Kai' season five premiere at Los Angeles Historical Park on Sept. 7. Charley Gallay/Getty Images.

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Pay for my tattoo of an Olive Garden breadstick, with little steaming squiggles coming out of the ends, and I'll get it right now. OG 4 lyfe, baby. Come at my ...

At the end of the episode, the trio all take a bite of a breadstick, in unison. This isn't like the Applebee's scene in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, where it's part of the joke, that the Bobby fam is having this big hoorah at an Applebee's, treating it like they're at Ruth's Chris. Come at my suburban Olive Garden—Greentree, PA, the GOAT—and I will defend it with my very life. Turn out that, in an effort to make Robby and Miguel best friends, Johnny invited the two for a come-to-Jesus at the Italian ( [okay, "Italian"](https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a19562071/olive-garden-meatball-pizza-bowl/)) mecca. There's some humor going on in Cobra Kai, but I actually believe, in my heart of hearts, that money was transferred here, with the intent of Johnny Lawrence earnestly speaking about the healing power of breadsticks. Pay for my tattoo of an Olive Garden breadstick, with little steaming squiggles coming out of the ends, and I'll get it right now.

This episode has it all: a little relationship drama, a little karate, and a new appearance from a character from the movies. A recap of “Playing With Fire ...

Either way, “Playing With Fire” feels like a return to the Cobra Kai we know and love. Demetri has the right idea when he and Eli take Miguel to a jewelry store to buy an expensive octopus charm for Sam. That’s continuing this season: In the tank, she sees various characters demanding different things from her, with a hallucination of Tory transforming into a hallucination of Sam herself. On one side, Demetri and Eli show some adorable (and justified) concern about the lack of emojis in Sam’s texts; on the other side, Yasmine and Moon urge Sam to keep it cool and wait until they can talk in person. Of course, this immediately leads to a fight between Mike and Chozen, the latter of whom mistakes their shadowboxing for a real fight (and already beat down the “goons” who, it turns out, were Mike’s employees). Still, it takes some time to himself — and a welcome heart-to-heart with Miguel, whom he offers some simple but genuinely good advice — to remind him that he isn’t. In the episode’s closing moments, we see exactly what that means for Mike Barnes, who finds his furniture store burning to the ground. The truth, which Daniel learns when he grabs the phone from Mike, is that he owns a furniture store passed down from his father-in-law. The episode builds up the tension around “karate’s bad boy” so much that it becomes a little obvious he won’t be the bully Daniel and Chozen expect him to be. With everyone back in the Valley, “Playing With Fire” feels like a back-to-basics episode of Cobra Kai. As Daniel and Mike catch up, we get a drastically different picture of the needlessly cruel mercenary bully of The Karate Kid Part III. Still, the classic series of misunderstandings that follows is great fun, starting with the two handsaws he removes from his trunk (“good for cutting bone,” Chozen notes) and continuing with the phone conversation Daniel overhears.

Meanwhile, Mr. Miyagi's prized pupil Daniel LaRusso and Cobra Kai's original bad boy Johnny Lawrence are forced closed the doors to their dojos after losing the ...

One audience reviewer said the show brought him back to his childhood, providing viewers an escape from the turbulence of today. The show got its start on YouTube, which produced three seasons before it stopped making original scripted programming, and was then picked up by Netflix in 2020. The new season picks up with Lawrence going after his student, Miguel Diaz, who went to Mexico in search of his real father. Snake in the grass Terry Silver swept the leg on his Vietnam War buddy and Cobra Kai Karate co-founder John Kreese, landing him in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Back in the Valley, LaRusso confronts another foe from his past. A dark cloud loomed over the city of Los Angeles at the end of Cobra Kai's fourth season.

Cobra Kai's fifth round takes it to the next level in every possible way, with the only question being how it can follow up such a powerful act.

That is because there's possibly more action than ever before in Cobra Kai, or at least, it's way more dangerous than it ever was in the four prior seasons. Instead, asking where the show is headed next will definitely make for a more interesting conversation, as the season ends with the feeling that Perhaps a better explanation is that the show simply has a lot going on, so much that it's surprising to see how nicely it wraps up after taking so many detours. That means both men must rise to the occasion, which in this case means Johnny ends up becoming a more responsible person, thus paying off all the character progression that Cobra Kai has very, very slowly crafted for William Zabka's story arc. Speaking of which, Martin Kove’s return as sensei Kreese does not go unnoticed and does work quite decently as a side quest for the protagonists. Against all odds, Cobra Kai’s fifth season cranks it up to eleven to provide fans of the show an enhanced version of everything they’ve loved so far about the Karate Kid spinoff.

In the Season 5 premiere of Cobra Kai, Miguel searches for his father as Terry Silver reveals his expansion plan for the dojo.

Silver's voiceover returns, and it is a turning point for Cobra Ka as he addresses all of his students, celebrating that his enemies have been forced to close up shop and Cobra Kai has more students than ever before — but this means Cobra Kai will need a new Sensei. Miguel follows the man he believes is his pop to a colorful outdoor market and is dismayed to see him kiss a pretty young woman and play with a toddler. She goes on about his lack of interest in her life and when he tells her there is more to life than karate, she hangs up. Miguel tries to chat with the child, and he runs off. Miguel easily neutralizes the bouncer and speaks to the leader of the group in Spanish, who lets him go. People are flocking to Cobra Kai's grand opening and Daniel and Chozen watch from a car park nearby. He starts to approach a group of card players and a bouncer stops him. Daniel conveys his fears about Terry Silver and the expansion of Cobra Kai, and is worried Silver will brainwash most of the kids in the Valley. When he heard Miguel was in trouble, he had to do something, and he needed Robbie's help tracking down a man named Hector Salazar. Miguel is happy to reimburse them for their time until he spots the scam: they've taken his bag and now want money in exchange for it. Johnny offers Robbie a Mexican coke, which Robbie tells him is just a regular coke. His spiel is to appeal to a broad range of different people and promises to turn your kid into a warrior.

Who's okay with only having access to half the water park? A recap of “Downward Spiral,” episode 4 of season five of 'Cobra Kai' on Netflix.

Johnny gets the lightest subplot of the episode as he turns to the gig economy for work now that he’s out of a job with a baby on the way. Miguel and Robby have one last facedown at the end of the episode when Johnny comes to pick Robby up. He even calls up Shannon and asks to have Robby for the summer. It’s a nice way to feature a sensei-student pairing that wouldn’t otherwise be possible in the story since Eagle Fang shut down. But from Kenny’s point of view, everything good in his life came from Cobra Kai; before, he was a lonely victim, and now he’s on top of the food chain, surrounded by “friends.” He’s not going to quit now. The biggest conflict, though, is a territory war straight out of West Side Story: The park is split in half, with Cobra Kai restricted to one side and the ex-Miyagi Do and Eagle Fang kids to the other. Robby makes one last attempt, telling her that she’s “part of the problem” if she stays in Cobra Kai. “Don’t tell me the best place for Kenny is Cobra Kai,” Robby says to Tory after they witness his bullying Anthony firsthand. The issue isn’t that Daniel was wrong to be suspicious; we know he was right. But while she has plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the role karate plays in the Valley — both her kids’ and her husband’s lives have been threatened in the past year — she’s never really suffered a personal loss because of it. Daniel admits that he didn’t tell Amanda he was still involved in this war, but it only escalates from there: When Silver bids $30,000 for the treasured bonsai trees Daniel is donating, he taunts Daniel with the idea that he’ll probably just use them for mulch. Back at home, Amanda is understandably pissed at how Daniel embarrassed her in front of the board.

Xolo Maridueña y Vanessa Rubio son los actores que continuarán en la nueva temporada 5 de Cobra Kai, que ya está disponible en Netflix.

Nacido de un padre cubano-ecuatoriano y de una madre mexicana, Maridueña fue elegido en 2018 para interpretar el papel principal de Miguel Díaz, un joven de ascendencia ecuatoriana que se convierte en el primer estudiante de Johnny Lawrence La colombiana de 38 años, nacida en Nueva Jersey, interpreta el papel de una mujer inteligente y fuerte que es el interés romántico de Johnny Lawrence. Xolo Maridueña y Vanessa Rubio son los actores que continuarán en la nueva temporada 5 de Cobra Kai, que ya está disponible en

Actor Sean Kanan is back to play the character again after 33 years. Here's what you need to know.

(And this is before Jessica returns in Season 5 and we find out she is the cousin of Daniel LaRusso’s wife, Amanda.) Anyway, the three heavies try to convince Daniel to sign up for the All-Valley Tournament but he refuses. To pay for the repairs to the show, Daniel and not-his-girlfriend Jessica go to retrieve a special bonsai tree that Mr. His plan is to start training Daniel in the “strike first” ethos of Cobra Kai and separate him from Mr. He lives in London, his DMs are open, and he is probably thinking about dessert. Mike takes Snake and Dennis to the bonsai shop where Daniel is hanging out with his girlfriend Jessica (Robyn Lively). Of course, Mike won’t fight fair, kicking Daniel in the old family jewels before deploying some illegal punches to really deliver the pain. Meanwhile, Silver impersonates a poor karate master and tries to get close to Daniel, who has opened a bonsai tree shop in a sketchy part of the city with Mr. Who is even left to terrorize the karate-obsessed teens of the San Fernando Valley and their martial arts aggrieved fathers (and father figures)? Silver’s plan to get Daniel is two-fold and absolutely bonkers. We never get to see that epic fight in this season, so here is a reminder of just who Mike Barnes is, how he started working with Terry Silver, and why he and Daniel have not just beef, but really, really old dry-aged beef. Johnny Lawrence ( [William Zabka](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a35120601/william-zabka-interview-cobra-kai-johnny-lawrence/)) has turned away from the dark side and merged his start-up [Eagle Fang](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a34992512/cobra-kai-eagle-fang-karate/) dojo with Daniel LaRusso’s ( [Ralph Macchio](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a35176504/ralph-macchio-cobra-kai-season-3/)) Miyagi-Do Karate. John Kreese ( [Martin Kove](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a34554787/martin-kove-cobra-kai-interview/)) was [sent to prison in the Season 4 finale](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38530713/cobra-kai-season-4-ending-explained/) thanks to [Terry Silver](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38579940/cobra-kai-who-is-terry-silver/) ( [Thomas Ian Griffith](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a38628716/thomas-ian-griffith-cobra-kai-season-4-interview/)) framing him for a beating he didn’t deliver and stealing Cobra Kai from his clutches.

Cobra Kai” Season 5, the latest installment in the popular “Karate Kid” sequel TV series on Netflix, currently has a perfect 100% critics score on Rotten ...

Recent TV shows to achieve a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes include Netflix’s “Mo,” FX/Hulu’s “Reservation Dogs” Season 2, HBO’s “Hacks” Season 1 and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” Season 1. Season 1 of “Cobra Kai” also has a 100% critics score on the site, while seasons 2 and 3 have a 90% critics score and S4 clocks in at 95%. As of Friday, “Cobra Kai” Season 5 registered a 100% Tomatometer score, based on Rotten Tomatoes’ aggregation of 27 critics ratings, as well as a 96% audience score.

A woman does a jumping kick in the air next to a man in a dojo. Team Karate Center owner Fariborz Azhakh and his daughter, Laila, at their dojo in Woodland ...

“I don’t like a lot of the emphasis on tournaments,” said Bryan Hawkins, a Granada Hills instructor who takes his students to only one tournament every year. First, she took them into a boxing ring where they performed kicks and strike combinations, the sounds of “hi-yas!” and heavy breaths again echoing around the room. Then, they went to a set of monkey bars, where one girl fell to the mat with a thud. “I would say karate is the best sport to be telling the personal and philosophical lessons we’re exploring on the show,” Heald said. Four decades ago, the original “Karate Kid” helped introduce the sport to pop culture. The once robust market of karate magazines and martial arts publications — such as one Matsuda used to publish — had nearly disappeared. And one week, their theater was showing “Enter the Dragon,” the iconic 1973 spy thriller starring Lee as an undercover agent and martial arts master. “I took karate in a dojo for a few weeks when I was a kid,” Heald said with a laugh. “If you apply yourself to this, and you practice and fight in a smart way, you can outwit an opponent and be successful with being of larger size. After attracting millions of views through its first two seasons in 2018 and 2019, which aired on YouTube Premium, the show moved to Netflix and quickly became one of the streaming service’s most-watched titles. “The goal of all martial arts, in my opinion, is developing your competency and your character,” says Fariborz Azhakh, the 60-year-old sensei who has run Team Karate Center for four decades. “‘Cobra Kai’ and ‘Karate Kid’ made it real, so people could relate to it,” Azhakh explains.

'Cobra Kai' season 5 guest star Sean Kanan says 'the table is set' for Mike Barnes to return next season.

I think I got a B in wood shop, and I got a D in metal shop. But it was fun that Mike and Johnny very quickly became unlikely compatriots and buddies. People speculated a lot about Mike Barnes and Johnny fighting, which I don't understand because they never knew each other and there's no reason to think that they would have any beef. So it was [Jon [Hurwitz]](https://ew.com/person/jon-hurwitz/) and [Josh [Heald]](https://ew.com/person/josh-heald/), and I said, "Look guys, my only hope is that the character won't simply be a unidimensional thug, like he was in the film." But I do certainly think that the table is set for, hopefully, Mike to continue. And I'd like to say thanks so much to the fans for wanting this for so long. I would say, "Keep the faith and we shall see." Even when we were on set, they were receptive and open to suggestions I had. Luckily, they yanked it [down] pretty quickly, but some people saw it and they kept quiet about it. I think we talked in June or July and then I was filming in September. And yeah, obviously it was my hope that at some point the character would be given the jersey and told to get in the game. "I've had literally hundreds of people a week [asking me about it] through social media and when I would do conventions and appearances.

The first episode of the season that feels like we're watching Cobra Kai at its best. A recap of “Extreme Measures,” episode 5 of season five of 'Cobra Kai' ...

It sinks in for Amanda just how present this trauma still is for Daniel — the sight of his own bloody knuckles brings him back to that oft-remembered dark lesson from Silver in Part III — and she resolves to cut him some slack. At the end of Part III, Jessica was packing to leave California and return to patch things up with her ex-boyfriend in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio. She was present for a lot of Silver’s shenanigans in 1985 and saw firsthand how badly he traumatized Daniel, forming a friendship with the kid while his goons terrorized him and even assaulted Jessica. Johnny and Daniel’s bromance is the heart of the show, and I missed their interactions in the early episodes this season (and in the later ones last season). Johnny assures Daniel that he and Amanda will get through this rough patch, and Daniel realizes he can’t risk losing his family, owning up to his failures. Johnny is more at peace than ever, with Robby out of Cobra Kai and Kreese in prison, so it makes sense that for once he’d be wary of getting back in the fight. For one, it’s very funny: Johnny repeatedly lies to Miguel and Robby to get them in the same room, and they keep falling for it. But Daniel and Chozen realize they have an anonymous ally when they find a message in the mail accusing Stingray of lying in the testimony that sent Kreese to jail. The moments of familial bliss are a sharp contrast to the scenes with Daniel, who’s perhaps in a rougher place than we’ve ever seen him. If they’re in the same orbit again, that’s a clear sign the story is really starting to kick in as we enter the second half of the season. He even goes so far as to confess that it was the worst moment in his life. Not coincidentally, it also features the two best fight scenes so far, and it’s the first episode to feature the show’s best pairing: Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso.

There were plenty of big reveals in Cobra Kai season 5: Jessica Andrews (Robyn Lively) is related to Amanda LaRusso (Courtney Henggeler)! Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) ...

We've talked about Big Red and Little Red and what it must be like at the dinner table after the mall fight, after the school brawl, after the showdown at the laser tag place," he says with a laugh. Johnny ( [William Zabka](https://ew.com/person/william-zabka/)) is an Olive Garden superfan! The funny thing for us is in real life they are brothers and they were called the ginger twins like immediately. As they leave the Cobra Kai parking lot after the epic Terry Silver ( While some fans assumed that the duo (also known as the Ginger Twins) were related, it had never been explicitly stated in the show. There were plenty of big reveals in Cobra Kai season 5: Jessica Andrews (Robyn Lively) is related to Amanda LaRusso (Courtney Henggeler)!

Jessica Andrews, played by Robyn Lively, is the latest character from the 'Karate Kid' movies to make an appearance on 'Cobra Kai'.

In episode 5 of the new season, Jessica once again proves to be a centering influence on Daniel while he is spiralling, even if they aren't in the same room together. Jessica was a close friend of Daniel LaRusso while he was preparing for the All Valley under Terry Silver's tutelage during the events of The Karate Kid III. [Season 5](https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a40869272/cobra-kai-season-5-teaser-mike-barnes-sean-kanan/), which just dropped on Netflix, also features a cameo appearance from a friendlier face: Jessica Andrews.