I've been very anti-modern entertainment for the past few years or so: don't watch cable or Netflix, don't go to the movies (last new movie I saw was Joker), don't read modern literature, etc. However, I still use the internet, and watch YouTube -- for as long as they let neutral and right-wing creators on the platform, so not for much longer I'm sure -- and I finally got around to watching clips of Cobra Kai.
From the moment I saw footage mocking politically correct speech, I got curious. One YouTube Premium trial and two seasons later, and I found Cobra Kai to be exactly the show we needed, one that rejects Leftist politics. It mocks gender neutrality, it mocks cultural appropriation whiners, it makes fun of a white guy interrupting a karate tournament to preach about equality, and it did this across three seasons.
I'm curious if this is going to keep going, because the show is on Netflix now, and they approved a fourth season. So, while I expect the Lefties to try and worm their way into future episodes, if you need a show that serves to entertain and not indoctrinate, Cobra Kai Seasons 1 - 3 has my stamp of approval.
What I like is that Cobra Kai treats the characters like characters, not as a soapbox for some social “issue”. Miguel isn’t a hispanic teenager, he’s a teenager who happens to be hispanic, if that makes sense. Aisha isn’t a black teenager, she’s a teenager who happens to be black. It would’ve been so easy to transform some of the characters into caricatures, but they remain characters.
I’d like to gush about the story some more, outside the context of political activism, but idk how .win formats spoilers. I’ll just say, at this point in time, I’m enjoying the ride while it lasts and hopefully they don’t get on the soapbox and ruin the series.