![]() Meanwhile, Kenny and the Cobra Kai boys continue to bully Anthony. There’s a lot going on here: While Miguel awkwardly tries to be friends with Sam again, Robby is trying to break through to Tory about the danger of staying in Cobra Kai. I’m sure this isn’t the end of his crusade for revenge after Daniel “played with fire,” but he does some serious damage here.Īll the teen drama of the episode converges at the water park. And Silver’s skillful manipulation of the fissures in their marriage helps build him up as even more of a formidable enemy than he already was. I’m doubtful this time apart will get too serious, but it makes for an effective story for Amanda. ![]() “The reason we’re fighting is because you can’t let things go,” Amanda says, making the decision to take some time away from Daniel with the kids. Daniel tries to show Amanda that this is what Silver wanted (again, he’s correct), but the damage is done. And, of course, the biggest issue is that Daniel has been lying to her - not just about Chozen’s time at Cobra Kai, but about the fight at the furniture store, which Chozen accidentally reveals mid-argument. The issue is that Daniel let Silver get to him easily instead of focusing on his wife first and foremost. The issue isn’t that Daniel was wrong to be suspicious we know he was right. Then Silver makes Daniel think he called Amanda a psychopathic liar to Eva - leading Daniel to make a spectacle of himself by shoving Silver over in front of everyone and looking like even more of a fool when Eva says that Silver spoke highly of Amanda.īack at home, Amanda is understandably pissed at how Daniel embarrassed her in front of the board. Daniel admits that he didn’t tell Amanda he was still involved in this war, but it only escalates from there: When Silver bids $30,000 for the treasured bonsai trees Daniel is donating, he taunts Daniel with the idea that he’ll probably just use them for mulch. But it turns out he’s right to be concerned: Silver manages to effortlessly manipulate them both, playing nice to Amanda and slyly letting it slip that Daniel sent Chozen to “rough up” his new potential sensei hires. ![]() (The founder, Eva, is probably one of the only people in the Valley who doesn’t know about Daniel and Silver’s baggage.)Īmanda, of course, thinks Daniel’s being paranoid when he starts to panic about whatever Silver might be planning. But then Terry Silver happens to be the donor hosting the event, so all plans to stay chill go out the window. Daniel has set aside the karate drama for a moment he knows it’s an important night for Amanda. The inciting incident is an auction for the charity Dreams for Teens, where Amanda is hoping to impress the founder so she can get a spot on the board. That changes in “Downward Spiral,” when karate finally comes between Amanda and her husband and, for the first time, puts her marriage in jeopardy. But while she has plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the role karate plays in the Valley - both her kids’ and her husband’s lives have been threatened in the past year - she’s never really suffered a personal loss because of it. Amanda LaRusso has always been an essential part of Cobra Kai: the calm, sarcastic voice of reason in a community inexplicably obsessed with children’s karate tournaments.
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