It’s the most late stage capitalist thing ever. You got a crazy Vietnam War vet who looks like he partook in the My Lai massacre, a sensei who still relives his Reagan era youth with hair metal and is pretty much stuck in the 80s, and a sheltered car salesman who is Mr. America Bourgeois values all trying to influence their poisonous energy on to kids who end up fighting each other and are on the receiving end of generational trauma. All while being played out through Okinawan Karate which was used as self defense against what we now call Japan, used by Americans in their suburban hell hole.

It’s a fun spectacle.

I watched the first season and was similarly baffled at how much I enjoyed it. The politics are pretty awful, the writing isn’t really creative… I think its just the overall sincere cheeziness of it all idk.

It’s actually slightly amazing.

It’s dumb schlocky bullshit and that sort of thing has been sorely missing from movies and TV for the last 20+ years (or however long it’s been since The Wire came out). It doesn’t take itself seriously and it’s completely and totally in on the joke.

Fucking hell, the most liberal garbage I’ve ever seen. Goddamn teens coming of age, them youngins gotta get off my grass. Chock full of woke scolding thickly layered over even thicker normalization of capitalist and liberal miasma.