Cobra Kai Season 5 is available exclusively on Netflix starting today, September 9, 2022. Yes, the wait is finally (!) over – although to be fair, that doesn’t even refer to the start date of the new episodes themselves. While the previous seasons were released around the turn of the year, Season 5 is coming around the corner in late summer – and a good three months earlier!
And yet many fans of the martial arts series have been sitting on hot coals for the past nine months. On the one hand, most of the fourth season released on December 31, 2021 should have been through by the first week of January at the latest. On the other hand, the series makers Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald confirmed back then that Season 5 was already shot and in the can. Nine months later we finally get to see them. And there is probably a new highlight in the “Karate Kid” universe in the house…
Above all, of course, the fight for karate dominance in the Valley awaits us in the new episodes, which has always been part of the “Karate Kid” DNA and should reach unprecedented dimensions in the fifth “Cobra Kai” season.
Because the equally wealthy and sinister villain and Kreese successor Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) does everything possible to expand with Cobra Kai and to open rows of dojos in the region. If Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) want to prevent this sinister plan, they will have to work together again for better or for worse. But can the two arch-rivals pull themselves together again? And how long does the teamwork go well this time?
But there is also a lot going on outside of the Valley. After all, in the closing moments of Season 4, Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) was making his way to Mexico in search of his biological father. However, Johnny and his offspring Robby (Tanner Buchanan) give chase and do everything they can to bring the teenager back.
In keeping with the tradition of previous seasons, we are once again expecting one or two more comebacks from an original star. At least Yuji Okumoto will return once more as Chozen, and “Karate Kid III” villain Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan) is also new to the party.
Also available from September 9, 2022 is the thriller “End Of The Road”, in which “Fast & Furious” star Ludacris takes a seat in the passenger seat for once. Queen Latifah (“Equalizer”), on the other hand, takes over the helm. After several strokes of fate, she has nothing left to lose, packs her family into the car and sets out together with her in search of a better life. But the misfortune takes its course – and soon she also has to deal with a mysterious killer.
The relationship drama Sous Emprise and the true-life Korean thriller series Narco-Saints are also on Netflix starting today.
