If you know me at all, you won’t be surprised to learn that I’ve incorporated a lesson about the franchise into my Popular Culture course. Any excuse to ogle pictures of the Rock and Vin Diesel and call it course prep…

I’m kidding, but the series merits serious academic study. In 2015, as the franchise was gearing up to release its seventh instalment in theatres, it was the ninth-highest-grossing film series of all time with a combined gross of over $5 billion. Since then, two additional films have been released - Fast 8: The Fate of the Furious, released in 2017, grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide and the 2019 spin-off, Hobbes & Shaw made over $760 million worldwide. That’s a lot of money…

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