Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Season 6 Review

December 31, 2021 at 6:34am
By Jason Stettner

The Fast & Furious franchise just keeps on rolling with this sixth and final season of the spin-off animated series for kids carrying the subtitle of “Homecoming”. With this wrapping up the series I can’t honestly believe it’s already over. It’s been a couple of years and six seasons which is just wild. I don’t know what got me on this insane train, but I suppose I’m just going to feel a tad odd that the random drop of new seasons has come to an end.

This final season does have a couple extra episodes and an overall story that brings back familiar faces while also providing some new threats. It slightly increase the stakes, but more so on the area they call home. There have been some changes in the characters over the seasons, but not as much as I had originally hoped for. It makes sense for what type of show this is, I just saw things evolving a tad more for the individual cast members.

As mentioned, the whole squad is here alongside many smaller moments with past season members. Tony Toretto (Tyler Posey) is sort of the family element, and speaking of that fans of the overall series might be in for a bit of a surprise appearance that we haven’t really seen since the start. Anyways, things start out fine and then the squad is displaced. It’s about seeing where everyone is at, and looking at somewhat moving on from what’s been happening.

It doesn’t really lean into any new territory, but it gives you an idea of what they might do if they were completely disbanded. There’s a larger more AI type threat than ever before, and the squad needs to tackle this scenario. It ends somewhat twice, as an additional story bit towards the end does expand it a tad more than what is perhaps needed yet still is totally appreciated.

The animation work on this was very interesting, the push towards a realism while still being animated was unique. While aiming to be somewhat vast in scale featuring neat action there was a lot of empty backdrops and generally really open areas that did come across as empty.

It worked well for the visuals on the high speed racers that were in action. It was a sort of motion blur, it’s hard to describe but it makes the vehicles come across as very fast. This season looked more traditional as they went back to largely city environments and then some more desert like terrain as well on the occasion. This also brings in some fun tech, with a varied cast that should hit many individuals on different levels.

The crews have their own unique quirks and I found the focus of their goals to be interesting. The voice acting was fine, the leads worked well and this is a varied group. For their final batch of villains I felt they were a tad lacking in unique individuality. It was essentially just this bland AI individual going about causing problems and then some Tron like followers that you don’t really get context into which was odd.

The Conclusion

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Season 6 is a great conclusion for the series that I’m sure fans will appreciate, it’s longer than previous seasons and does tie things up fine. There’s not really any sort of intense conclusion to it and things end up being steady as most animated shows do conclude. It’s a fun ending for sure, and definitely on brand.

It was neat seeing some returning faces in this one and it did seem to wrap up a number of story elements that have been lingering over the previous seasons. It handled its roster of characters well and set up things to continue onwards past the definite ending of this series. They could easily pick this back up at some point down the road I would imagine, but as I’ve noted this is it for now.

The series finale, no more is planned to follow Netflix wise. The story elements were decent here, it ended in a satisfying way and it was a nice chunkier conclusion to what has come prior. Seriously though, six seasons in a couple of years is just wild and the type of steady content I appreciate. Every few months or so I would look and then just be surprised that a new season was just available.

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Rating Overall: 8.0