It’s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We’re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall. Netflix’s “The Altruists,” which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX and landed them in prison, is coming out on November 19.
It’s just in time for Thanksgiving, assuming that another infamous Sam doesn’t ruin our holiday plans again. Here’s the trailer, starring Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison: We can’t say we ever expected that the ethical disconnects behind effective altruism were going to pique the interest of Hollywood, but hopefully, Netflix will do the strangeness of this story justice.
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