The Altruists hits Netflix on November 19 — not with a bang, but with a whisper. A trailer dropped Thursday that’s less about scandal and more about conviction: two idealists who believed they were saving the world, until they weren’t. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle play Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried, the real-life FTX founders whose $8 billion fraud made them Gen Z’s Bonnie & Clyde. The series doesn’t flinch at the numbers, the U.S. Government alleged up to $10 billion was stolen. But it leans hard into motive. 'I genuinely believe both Sam and Caroline were deeply committed altruists from day one,' says creator Graham Moore in a Tudum interview. That line isn’t just a hook. It’s the spine of the show. They wanted to fix finance. Instead, they broke it. And maybe, according to Moore, convinced themselves they were still doing good while doing harm. The eight-episode limited series is based on New York Magazine pieces by Kevin T. Dugan and Jen Wieczner. It stars Alex Lawther as Sam Trabucco, Karan Soni as Nishad Singh, Naomi Okada as Claire Watanabe, Madison Hu as Constance Wang, Matt Rife as Ryan Salame, and Eugene Young as Gary Wang. Supporting cast includes Paul Reiser, Robin Weigert, Maddie Hasson, Marianna Phung, Jennifer Grey, Terry Chen, William Mapother, Jack Greenlees, Elizabeth Adams, Hannah Galway, Donald Heng, David James Lewis, and Jasmine Lukuku. Executive producers include Barack and Michelle Obama through Higher Ground Productions, Jessie Dicovitsky, Vinnie Malhotra, Scoop Wasserstein, Tonia Davis, James Ponsoldt, Lauren Morelli, and Garner herself. The tone? Not quite redemption arc. More like moral collapse in slow motion. No one’s claiming innocence here. But the show asks: what if the crime wasn’t greed, but belief? That’s the question Netflix is betting on. And it’s launching this fall, right before the holidays. So who’s watching? The ones who still wonder if you can be a villain and a hero at the same time.