Streaming is Fast & Furious’ biggest villain — here’s why

There’s only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the utter difficulty in watching the Fast & Furious movies online. I was reminded about the third option this week when I updated our story on the matter, as we get closer and closer to the release of Fast X. Or, as I’ve seen it referred to on occasion: Fast X Part One. Yes, folks, the tenth mainline Fast film isn’t the true finale. Whatever they decide to call the next one, that’s the end. Either way, though, this should be a good time to binge the Fast & Furious movies. 

So while you can watch the Star Wars movies in order and watch the Marvel movies in order on Disney Plus, the story isn’t as simple for the Fast movies. Much like how Dom (Vin Diesel) and his brother Jakob (John Cena) had been separated for decades, the Fast movies are splintered across the internet. And that stinks.

Fast’s streaming problem has only gotten worse

In 2021, when I first noticed this problem, times were slightly sunnier, and the streaming was easier. When I was introducing a friend to the Fast franchise, we looked at HBO Max the way Dom looks at a basket of ice-cold Coronas, as we quickly found it had The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.