Emmy Catch-Up: Cobra Kai

Every year, I watch the six submitted episodes of every series I don’t regularly watch that’s up for one of the Emmy series prizes. Last year, I started watching the entire season of each show to get a better idea of the quality I missed, and I’ve decided to continue that this year.

Cobra Kai: Season 3, Episode 7 “Obstáculos” (B)

It’s strange to see the adult characters interacting with the teenage characters in a school setting, though I’m sure that happened during the first two seasons I didn’t watch on a more regular basis. I like the concept that Johnny knows all the ways to sneak into his old high school because he went there, and wasn’t quite as impressed by his choice to confront Hawk in that setting. After a hapless search for cheap real estate resulted in him finding a public park that some rather guy told him was okay to use for free, Johnny did manage to restart his dojo, but Kreese showing up with his entire student body to make Johnny one last offer to team up with him was a decidedly intimidating and aggressive move. It’s baffling to me that Daniel hears what happened to Sam’s friend and then decided to continue training her in karate rather than reporting the fact that a teenager broke another teenager’s arm to authorities, but there’s evidently more going on here. Sam’s nightmare with Tory trying to drown her was quite violent, and hopefully reality won’t be nearly as bad. Demetri had a miserable time with his cast and the relentless mockery he endured, but Yas had a soft spot for him and chose to use the immaturity of her classmates to turn it into something that he could champion as bragging rights rather than a humiliation. I imagine that things are only going to get more intense as the season fast approaches its end.