The Altruists and Yellowjackets Final Season Lead This Week’s Streaming Picks
Netflix's The Altruists, about Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, lands November 19. Yellowjackets returns for its final season November 20. Here are the streaming picks for the coming week, with platforms and start dates.
Netflix's The Altruists, a drama about Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, arrives Thursday, November 19, 2026, and sits among the seven best shows to stream this week. The final season of Yellowjackets follows a day later on Paramount+.
Two big premieres
The Altruists retells the real-life love affair between Bankman-Fried and Ellison, and the rise and fall of their cryptocurrency business, FTX. Anthony Boyle plays Bankman-Fried. Julia Garner, known for Inventing Anna and Ozark, plays Ellison.
The series can feel a little staid and even dated, with nods to Tony Blair and Harry Potter that do not help. Still, its cautionary tale of tech idealists fuelled by a love of extreme risk-taking feels timely in 2026.
Yellowjackets, the plane-crash survival saga with cannibal twists, returns for a fourth and final series on Friday, November 20. The teen survivors finally restart their old lives, and the show must bring its past and present timelines together.
June Squibb and Molly Ringwald join returning cast members including Christina Ricci and Melanie Lynskey. Whether they make the story more entertaining or more convoluted is the question hanging over the finale.
Faith, care work and addiction
The Chosen, a Christian drama about the life of Jesus of Nazareth, starts its penultimate season on Prime Video on Sunday, November 15. A reported 300 million viewers worldwide have watched its five previous seasons. The new run draws on the crucifixion, and its showrunners call the finale "a global theatrical event".
Rewarding is out now on BBC iPlayer. The comedy follows overwhelmed Belfast support workers Francis and Sinead, played by standup comic Vittorio Angelone and Hannah McClean. It casts disabled and neurodivergent actors in roles that feel largely authentic, though it can run a little too downbeat.
The Hotline, a documentary, arrives on HBO Max on Thursday, November 19. It follows volunteers at the Never Use Alone helpline, who stay on the phone while callers use drugs and contact emergency services if necessary. The film looks at the drug epidemic that remains the leading cause of accidental deaths in the US.
Melania, again
Prime Video also releases a two-episode follow-up to its feature-length Melania Trump documentary on Friday, November 20. The episodes are titled Family and Trust, and Pride and Honor, and Brett Ratner's film is the source of both.
Many viewers saw the original as presidential propaganda, and it was also noted for being dull and vacuous. The first lady once wore a jacket that said "I really don't care do u?", which may sum up some viewers' reaction to the sequel.
