You may have heard that James Wan’s Furious 7 is tearing up the weekend box office. But for all the muscle heads and muscle cars and diesel-powered manliness of bald guys beating each other up, the franchise has a surprisingly serpentine story, ebbing and eddying, incorporating flashbacks, flash-forwards, and all kinds of twists. So before you see Furious 7 (and before Furious 7 wins Best Picture at next year’s Oscars), catch up with the Verge’s awesome ten-minute crash course of the entire Fast and Furious franchise.
