Netflix’s ‘The Altruists’ dramatizes FTX scandal in new series premiering November 2026

The collapse of FTX, which vaporized $8 billion in customer funds and sent its founder to prison for 25 years, is getting the prestige TV treatment. Netflix’s The Altruists premieres November 19, 2026, an eight-episode limited series that traces the rise and implosion of the crypto exchange through the relationship between Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison. Julia Garner, best known for her Emmy-winning turn in Ozark, plays Ellison, the former co-CEO of Alameda Research. Anthony Boyle takes on the role of Bankman-Fried. What the series covers The show is created by Graham Moore, who won an Academy Award for writing The Imitation Game. He co-showruns alongside Jacqueline Hoyt, with James Ponsoldt directing the first episode. Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions is executive producing alongside Vox Media Studios. The narrative is built around the intertwined personal and professional lives of Bankman-Fried and Ellison, two figures whose romantic relationship became inseparable from their business empire. The show draws inspiration from reporting in New York Magazine. Production began in Vancouver in mid-2025 and wrapped in November of that year. The supporting ca...