Cobra Kai’s highly anticipated final season will have a different release date schedule this year as Netflix has planned to give it three separate dates. Yes, fans will have to wait a little longer for every batch of episodes.
Season 6 will consist of 15 epic chapters with Part 1 arriving on July 18, Part 2 on November 28, and Part 3 sometime in 2025. The studio’s strategy is reminiscent of what Amazon Prime did with Robert Kirkman’s Invincible.
Cobra Kai Creators’ Message On The Final Season Of The Show
Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg felt very emotional sharing that they have decided to end the franchise but in a way that they know is right and fitting. In a statement released last January, as acquired by The Hollywood Reporter, they said:
“Reacquainting the world with the Karate Kid universe has been our humble honor. Making Cobra Kai has allowed us to join the same hallowed dojo once inhabited by the great Robert Mark Kamen, John Avildsen, Jerry Weintraub, and all the amazing original cast members.”
The trio also acknowledged that this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and they made sure never to give it mediocre treatment.
“It has also enabled us to play sensei, expanding the original storylines and birthing a new generation of underdogs. We’ve never once taken this opportunity for granted. Our day one goal with Cobra Kai has always been to end it on our terms, leaving the Valley in the time and place we’ve always imagined.”
Finally, they announced that the upcoming season six will mark the conclusion of Cobra Kai. It was a bittersweet decision for the three creatives to end the show, but it was also necessary.
As mentioned above, it will have three different release dates, and fans won’t be able to binge-watch all of them until the final batch arrives in 2025.
Cobra Kai Follows Invincible’s Controversial Release Dates
This trend of separate release dates for one season is quite a controversial one. Fans are definitely not happy about it, as evident in their rant against Invincible’s schedule. In a post from Reddit, a fan aired their frustration over divided release dates.
“Splitting a season into 2 parts is bulls—t. We’ve been waiting for 2 years for a new season, and now only after 4 episodes, we have to wait for MONTHS again, it makes no sense… I really don’t see the point in it. They just make fans wait even longer for something that’s already ready to be released.”
The producer’s reason for this was to let the viewers take in all the events that occurred in the first batch of episodes so they could properly process them. Though some fans are binge-watchers, waiting for months before dropping the next episode somehow kills the interest and excitement.
The backlash on Invincible should have been a warning for Cobra Kai. The staggering release timelines just don’t make sense, and it only prolongs the agony of the audience.
Cobra Kai is available to stream via Netflix while Invincible is ready to watch on Amazon Prime.
