According to Comicbook, the creators of the Netflix martial arts comedy-drama Cobra Kai talk about ending the series. The series is continuation of the Karate Kid film franchise and is coming to an end with its sixth installment. The final season will premiere on the streamer with five episodes on July 18, with another fivefollowing late this year and the remaining five in 2025. Comicbook spoke with series creators Josh Heald (Hot Tub Time Machine), Jon Hurwitz (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and Hayden Schlossberg (American Reunion: Extended Scenes) about the series concluding.
“Unlike every other season, we’re not building toward a bunch of storylines that are going to remain in flux and remain unresolved, and try to come up with the season’s cliffhanger and where do we want to turn up the heat,” Heald said to Comicbook. “There’s a lot of that along the way in Season six, obviously, because it’s split up in three parts.”
Heald continued, “But one of the most enjoyable things was thinking about the endgame that we’ve had in our heads from the beginning. For the characters that we had in Episode one, and then having acquired all of these other characters that we love and that have become so important to this universe along the way, making sure that their endgames all make sense, all dovetail with each other, all coexist in different and explosive ways. That was probably the most fun part of putting together the final season, making sure that we’re delivering upon the promise of everything we’ve set up from the first five seasons and land it all in satisfying and some unexpected ways.”
“For our main characters, you know the Johnny and Daniels of the world who we’ve known since 1984, the ending is very similar to what we were thinking about before we even had a writer’s room way back on Season one,” Hurwitz explained. “It was the kinds of things that we talked about in the long game. We always hoped that people would react to the show the way that they did and we’d have the opportunity to tell a six or seven season-long story. We’re just grateful that we had the opportunity to land it the way that we envisioned. So in terms of those characters, there’s tweaks within it, but the kinds of scenes that we have in some of those final episodes are very similar to things that we’ve been thinking about for a very long time.”
The series follows Johnny’s point of view from the Karate Kid films and his decision to open up the Cobra Kai dojo once more. Over the seasons, fans witness new characters join the teams as new storylines and plots keep the series interesting.
Cobra Kai is available to stream on Netflix.