LOS ANGELES – Hollywood is littered with the corpses of failed reboots.
But Cobra Kai, the acclaimed television spin-off of The Karate Kid movies (1984 to 1994), is often held up as an exemplary revival of a hit franchise, which it reinvented by stepping into the shoes of one of the original villains – and questioning whether the hero was all that heroic.
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