Cobra Kai
Let's Begin
TV Flash files “Let's Begin” as a desk essential hour — Cobra Kai (2018–2025) on Netflix, season 4, episode 1, aired 2021-12-31, 37 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E01: listed hour 31 of 65 in the Cobra Kai guide, first listed hour of season 4. It aired 2021-12-31 (37 min). The listed hour before it is “December 19” (S03E10). Next is “First Learn Stand” (S04E02).
Essential hour: “Let's Begin”. Let's Begin as season-four bow: the sensei mantra as episode title, six-season engine still treating the feud as inheritance, not a meme.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Johnny and Daniel combine dojos but their opposing styles immediately clash. Kreese tries to persuade a former partner to rejoin him at Cobra Kai.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Let's Begin sit in the Cobra Kai guide?
S04E01 is listed hour 31 of 65 — first listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 1.
When did Cobra Kai S04E01 air?
Let's Begin aired 2021-12-31 and is listed at 37 minutes.
Do I need The Karate Kid movies first?
It continues those characters decades later. The films help the wounds land; the series still teaches the Valley war through Johnny reopening the dojo.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch William Zabka and Ralph Macchio reopen the Valley war in a rare revival that grows past stunt casting into character tragedy and comedy. Johnny reopens Cobra Kai; a teen generation inherits the feud. Six seasons, YouTube-to-Netflix, underdog seasons that still slap, concluded in 2025.
So about last night in the Valley. Decades later, Johnny Lawrence reopens Cobra Kai and restarts a war — *Karate Kid* sequel as sitcom-drama with real pathos. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg's series premiered on YouTube Premium in 2018, then moved to Netflix and outran pure nostalgia. William Zabka and Ralph Macchio reopen old wounds as Johnny and Daniel while Xolo Maridueña and a teen cast inherit the feud. Tournaments escalate; mentorship cuts both ways. Six seasons, sixty-five episodes,…
Filed against
- Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso
Ralph Macchio plays Daniel LaRusso on Cobra Kai, the 2020s Valley-war revival that grew past stunt casting into character tragedy and comedy. Johnny reopens the dojo; a teen generation inherits the feud. Six seasons, YouTube-to-Netflix,…
- William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence
William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence reopened Cobra Kai and the Valley war — a rare revival that grows past stunt casting into character tragedy and comedy, Ralph Macchio on the other mat, a teen generation inheriting the feud. Six seasons,…
- Xolo Maridueña as Miguel Diaz
Xolo Maridueña’s Miguel Diaz inherited Cobra Kai’s Valley feud — Johnny reopening the dojo, a teen generation taking the war, six seasons of YouTube-to-Netflix revival that grew past stunt casting into character tragedy and comedy.…