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Fast and Furious Is Leaving Netflix — Now You’ll Need Three Streaming Services to Watch It All

Fast and Furious Is Leaving Netflix — Now You’ll Need Three Streaming Services to Watch It All
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Start your engines: Fast and Furious peels off Netflix on November 1, ending the streamer’s run as the easiest pit stop for most of the saga in the US, even though the later installments were never there.

Heads up if you were planning a Fast & Furious binge on Netflix: you’ve got until Nov 1. Netflix never had the last few sequels in the US, but it did carry most of the core run. That easy one-stop binge goes away next month.

What’s leaving Netflix

On Nov 1, these are out: The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, and the spinoff Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw.

So where do you watch them now?

It’s a hopscotch situation. The fourth movie and the eighth are on Max, F9 lives on Prime Video, and Fast X is on Peacock. The titles vanishing from Netflix will fall back to digital rental/purchase while they wait for their next streaming home (the licensing merry-go-round is messy). Here’s how it shakes out in the US after Nov 1:

  • The Fast and the Furious (2001) – VOD rental/purchase (Apple TV and other digital stores) until its next streaming window
  • 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) – VOD rental/purchase until its next streaming window
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) – VOD rental/purchase until its next streaming window
  • Fast & Furious (2009) – Streaming on Max
  • Fast Five (2011) – VOD rental/purchase until its next streaming window
  • Fast & Furious 6 (2013) – VOD rental/purchase until its next streaming window
  • Furious 7 (2015) – VOD rental/purchase until its next streaming window
  • The Fate of the Furious (2017) – Streaming on Max
  • F9: The Fast Saga (2021) – Streaming on Amazon Prime Video (available whether you’re on the ad tier or ad-free)
  • Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) – VOD rental/purchase until its next streaming window
  • Fast X (2023) – Streaming on Peacock (US)

Expect the outgoing movies to rotate onto one of Max, Prime Video, or Peacock in the coming months, but availability changes and this is US-specific.

The road to Fast X: Part 2 hasn’t been smooth

As for what’s next: the franchise’s finale (Fast X: Part 2) is in a weird spot. Fast X was billed as the penultimate chapter and did fine by pandemic-era standards, but the math was tight: a reported $340M budget against a $704M worldwide haul. The scorecard wasn’t exactly glowing either — roughly a 5.7 on IMDb, 56% on Rotten Tomatoes with an 84% audience score — which didn’t help the momentum.

Universal is reportedly looking to spend less this time. According to the Wall Street Journal, the studio wanted to trim about $50M from the current draft’s intended budget. The timeline has drifted too: once eyed for 2025, then 2026, now the chatter is 2027. On top of that, several major players haven’t signed on yet, which throws their return into question. Vin Diesel has said the goal is a 2027 window and a pivot back to the series’ roots — street-racing — but with no production start on the calendar, don’t expect the final lap to hit screens soon.

In the meantime, if you want to catch up, Fast X is on Peacock in the US. And if you’re waiting for the earlier films to settle somewhere post-Netflix, keep an eye on Max, Prime Video, and Peacock — they’re the likeliest pit stops.