COBRA KAI Creators Talk About Bringing The Hit Series to an End
The Cobra Kai saga is about to come to an end with its upcoming sixth season. This show has taken fans on quite a crazy journey, and I’m excited to see how the story wraps up.
Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg recently did an interview with CB and talked about bringing the beloved series to a close.
Heald said: "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. There's a lot of that along the way in Season 6, obviously, because it's split up in three parts.”
He added: "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 1, 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."
It’s good to know that the creative team put a lot of thought into this and how the character’s story arcs will come to an end.
As for Johnny (William Zabka) and Daniel (Ralph Macchio), it’s explained that they will end up right where they were planned to when Cobra Kai began.
Hurwitz explained: "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 1.
“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.”
That’s awesome to hear! While Daniel’s story will continue in the movie being developed, I’m actually more interested in following Johnny’s story, so I hope that they have some kind of future plan for him. I guess we’ll find out when Cobra Kai comes to a close.
The story for Season 6 picks up with Cobra Kai being eliminated from the Valley, but that doesn’t mean John Kreese (Martin Kove) won’t return to teach karate. As you know, he escaped from prison at the end of season five, but you’ll see in the trailer that he’s training a new group of students.
Cobra Kai Season 6 will consist of 15 total episodes, which will be released in three parts over the course of several months.
Part 1 of Cobra Kai Season 6 is set to be released on Netflix on July 18th. A few months later, on November 28th, Part 2 will be released. Then Part 3 will be released at some point in 2025, but a specific release date hasn't been announced for that.