- John Hansen
- December 30, 2025
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2025
I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even
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- John Hansen
- July 12, 2025
Despite team-up, ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ is legendarily dull
If “Karate Kid: Legends” was merely a flat sequel to 2010’s “Karate Kid” – about the next kid, Li Fong (Ben Wang), mentored by Jackie
- John Hansen
- May 8, 2025
What summer 2025 movies are worth getting off your couch for?
Anecdotally, this looks like the most loaded summer of movies in a long time, possibly ever. The big franchises are supplemented by surprising legacy comedy
- John Hansen
- February 20, 2025
‘Karate Kid’ (2010) and the problem with sticking to the script
The last 15 years or so have proven that returning characters mean more to audiences than reusing the title. “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” with the original characters,
- John Hansen
- February 18, 2025
‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6, Part 3 ties the belt on Johnny’s journey
“Cobra Kai” Season 6, Part 3 (Netflix) features a bizarre mix of the awful and the amazing. Ultimately it leaves us feeling good as it
- John Hansen
- December 30, 2024
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2024
Prestige miniseries and streaming franchise “content” ruled the roost, but traditional network TV surprisingly hung on to life this year – even if the format
- John Hansen
- November 23, 2024
Teen TV looks to the past with ‘Cobra Kai,’ ‘Hysteria!,’ ‘Cruel Intentions’
Some Gen-Z teen TV shows have original premises and say something specific about this point in history … but I’m not reviewing those here. Instead,
- John Hansen
- July 25, 2024
‘Cobra Kai’ eventually gets its kicks back in Season 6, Part 1
Has “Cobra Kai” (Netflix) lost its fighting edge in the five-episode Season 6, Part 1? Episode one is quite flat, episode two is spicier, but
- John Hansen
- December 30, 2022
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2022
Twenty years ago, there were more good TV episodes per year, but today there are more good TV shows. They just have shorter seasons, and
- John Hansen
- September 20, 2022
Griffith earns Silver medal for ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 5
“Cobra Kai’s” legacy, well-established by now, is that it legitimizes the cheesy-but-fun 1980s movies by expanding the story. Season 5 (Netflix) particularly sets its sights