Cobra Kai has been more than a pleasant surprise to many, myself included, in recent years. Since the debut of its first seasons, as part of the failed YouTube Originals project, and especially since it made the jump to Netflix, its creators have been able to combine all the elements in an appropriate way to create a simple series without great pretensions. , but such that he managed to captivate his legion of followers.

Undoubtedly, one of his greatest achievements was reaching a hugely diverse audience in terms of age. From those of us who were captivated by the experiences of Daniel LaRusso, recently arrived in California from New Jersey, as children in the eighties, to today’s young people who knew little or nothing about the original films, but were connected. with the story of the main protagonists of the series Miguel, Samantha, Robby, “Halcón” and others wrote an intergenerational story that was welcomed by the audience like hotcakes.

So began what began as a project aimed mainly at the nostalgia of Generation X and Y, eager to know what happened to the lives of LaRusso and Lawrence, in roles for which he evidently brought in Ralph Macchio and William Zabka (who are also the protagonists as well as producers of the series) , grows and restores the rest of the protagonists of the three original films (not counting, of course, The New Karate Kid, in which the very young and still almost unknown Hilary Swank took over from Macchio, nor the latest, starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan) and gives us ( in exchange for a monthly Netflix fee) some unforgettable moments.

The most recent season, the fifth, premiered in September of last year, and of course we’ve been waiting to hear the release date of the next one ever since. What we didn’t expect was that The sixth season will be the last season of Cobra Kaias confirmed by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, showrunners of the series, via joint statement which was posted on the series’ Twitter account.

As mentioned in the text, they were very clear from the beginning about the situation in which they want “El Valle” to remain at the end of the series, and after the development of all the characters during the first five seasons, it seems that this fate is already close, although the creators promise that the farewell will be the best of all the seasons of Cobra Kai. They’re playing to their advantage with the gimmick that they’ll be able to shut it down however they want, since Netflix doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the decision. On the contrary, it is likely that he regrets it as much as fans of the series already do, since it is one of his most successful productions.

However, when you’re used to seeing successful shows stretched and stretched until they’re mere shadows of their former selves (why do you think I’m talking about The Simpsons?), it’s actually good news that the show is going away. in a way, in a big way, where the creators strictly control the content, and as a result, they give followers an ending that fulfills the entire journey we have traveled to that point.