Does the Plot of ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Connect Back to the Main ‘Fast and Furious’ Series?

(Some spoilers ahead for “Hobbs & Shaw”) The “Fast and Furious” franchise has been going strong for 18 years now, and it just got its first official spinoff with “Hobbs & Shaw” — though I guess if we’re splitting hairs we could say that “Tokyo Drift” was also a spinoff, it just wasn’t framed as one when it was released in 2006. I bring up “Tokyo Drift” here for a very specific reason. That movie introduced the beloved character Han (Sung Kang) to the series, and then “Fast & Furious 6” retconned Jason Statham’s character, Shaw in “Hobbs & Shaw,” into the background of that film as the person responsible for Han’s death. Then Shaw was a villain in “Furious 7” before turning hero in “The Fate of the Furious” and getting his own movie alongside The Rock’s Hobbs. Also Read: 'Hobbs & Shaw' Leads Box Office With $60 Million Opening “Fate of the Furious” established Cipher (Charlize Theron) as the big bad of the franchise until it supposedly will end with the 10th main-series movie. But, in the meantime, we’ve got Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw running off on an epic side adventure. And, with “Hobbs & Shaw” having...