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My Year of Rest and Relaxation? More like our year of tech and reexamination. Between The Social Reckoning, Musk, You Can See Everything, and Artificial, it feels like 2026 is the year we\u2019re finally coming to grips with the fact that Big Computer is maybe not leading us down the path to enlightenment. Rounding out our keyboard consternation is Netflix\u2019s forthcoming series The Altruists<\/a>, based on New York\u2019s reporting<\/a> on the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison\u2019s crypto company FTX. Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner star as the lovers turned co-founders, the duo who set out to use crypto for good, kind of, but also for profit, kind of, in a business venture\u2013slash\u2013possible fraud that turned the whole world upside down.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Altruists looks a little less doom and gloom than some of its ripped-from-the-headlines tech brethren and a little more fun in the sun, if only because FTX was briefly headquartered the Bahamas, and who doesn\u2019t love a walk on the beach? Created by Graham Moore and co\u2013executive produced by Jacqueline Hoyt, The Altruists plays up that Bonnie and Clyde\u2013esque romance between Ellison and Bankman-Fried in its first trailer, long before they went on the run with millions and millions of other people\u2019s money. While Boyle\u2019s Bankman-Fried seems a little more grounded<\/a> than his real-life counterpart, Garner\u2019s high-wire swing as Ellison is mesmerizing \u2014 her kookiest turn yet in a career of big swings. All episodes premiere on Netflix on November 19.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n