Cobra Kai Season 2 is too much of the same

The Hollywood Reporter

The Karate Kid sequel series was so much of a surprise last year it "transitioned from underdog to favorite in the course of 10 half-hour episodes," says Daniel Fienberg. "If the second season of Cobra Kai, premiering April 24, had been our introduction to this updated world, I'm certain I would have found it an unexpected pleasure and deemed it far better than expectations. That these new 10 episodes basically could have been a first season is perhaps Cobra Kai's biggest problem. Season two is content to repeat many, or even most, of the beats from the first season, only without the freshness and genre-upending sense of surprise. The second season of Cobra Kai is too much of the same made with the expectation that the series can be an underdog forever, when any fan of the underdog sports genre knows that underdogs don't stay underdogs forever and it's a lot harder to love the favorite who still insists they're an underdog."

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