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Tommy Elrod
I mean its just a fun show that you need to suspend belief a lot. I mean the main plot is a super successful and now rich luxury car dealership owner cares that a small dojo gets opened by his childhood rival he hasnt seen in 30 years. The fact that pretty much every conflict could be solved by an extra two sentences in dialogue. Also somehow characters keep ending up at the same places despite it being LA, like there is apparently a single bar, a single restaurant, etc..
The best thing about the show is the Johnny Lawrence stuff. It's like he got in a time machine of drunkenness and suddenly arrived sober 35 years later and it's an even bigger shitshow. The show itself, meaning all the subplot stuff with the kids and a lot of the subplot stuff with Ralph Macchio, is just filler and, frankly, dumb. It's like they went back in time to some early 90s Aaron Spelling 90210 episode and grabbed outtakes. But the stuff with Johnny is for the most part golden. The show can be very, very funny in its way, which is why I keep watching. And the underlying issues with how Johnny Lawrence became a nobody and Ralph Macchio used his great 1984 victory to propel him in life is something that you could easily see play out in real life. There's a charm about that somehow. If you saw the movie in the theater in 984 like I did, those guys grew up to be exactly what you thought they'd be. That is if you spent any amount of time at all thinking about it, which nobody did. Both characters are very relatable and real, I think, in a way that they came no way close to in the original Karate Kid.