Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV and Paramount+ are all dropping major titles this November, and the lineup runs from a satirical teen cult drama to a Ridley Scott universe spinoff. The first arrival is Netflix’s The Body on November 11, followed by The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 the same day.

The Body opens the month with a cult mystery. Created by Quinn Shephard, the mind behind the Hulu series Under the Bridge and director of Not Okay, the Netflix YA drama is not based on the Stephen King story that inspired Stand By Me. It is a mix of Euphoria, Bring It On, Cruel Intentions, Yellowjackets and maybe The Exorcist. The show keeps its supernatural angle deliberately vague. A cheerleading squad at a Catholic school deals with an accident that downs one of its own, and events spiral into cult-like behavior with shades of the Salem Witch trials. It is set in 2004 and comes with an early-2000s soundtrack and a slew of new talent.

Rings of Power finally gets to the Lord of the Rings material. The Prime Video prequel returns with Sauron, played by Charlie Vickers, forging the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom. Gandalf, played by Daniel Weyman, takes on a Dark Wizard played by Ciáran Hinds, and Galadriel, played by Morfydd Clark, looks more serious than usual. The new faces are the bigger draw. Jamie Campbell Bower joins as Celeborn, Galadriel’s husband, and Simon Pegg voices the Balrog. If the Balrog sounds like Pegg in Shaun of the Dead, the show’s early missteps may be forgiven.

12 12 12 arrives on Apple TV on November 13. The series, created by Jim Keeble and Dudi Appleton, is not real-time, but it does deal with time. The premise is that any heist takes 12 months of planning and 12 hours to execute, and if the thieves are not caught within 12 days, they will never be caught. That structure follows mastermind Paul Galvin, played by Jamie Dornan. He is forced into a massive Swiss bank heist by his brother as he sets it up and executes it. FBI agent Jack Strickland, played by Anthony Mackie, pursues him the entire time and has a very personal reason for wanting him caught.

Any heist takes 12 months of planning and 12 hours to execute, and if the thieves aren’t caught in 12 days, they’ll never be caught.

The supporting cast adds weight. Kali Reis, who appeared in True Detective: Night Country, and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, known from NOS4A2 and Severance, play members of Galvin’s gang. The real hook is the cat-and-mouse between Dornan and Mackie. Four of the eight episodes are directed by Kari Skogland, who also helmed The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, so reuniting her with Mackie is a chance at redemption after the mixed reception to that Marvel series.

Nicolas Cage headlines one of the strangest biopics of the year. Madden hits theaters on November 11 and arrives on Prime Video a week later. Cage plays the man who sold a million game cartridges, among other things, in a David O. Russell film that marks the director’s first movie since 2022’s Amsterdam. The cast includes Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, Shane Gillis, Sienna Miller and John Mulaney, who plays the figure who has the brainstorm to turn John Madden into a video game.

The film comes with a heavy backdrop. Russell has been accused of sexual assault and abuse by crew members and cast members on various productions, and he reportedly punched a Sony executive in the stomach at an Oscar party. On Madden, Russell was accused of using a racial slur on set and attempting to put it into the script, which caused a crew walkout. Amazon disputed that account. The film’s trailer ends with a jokey conversation about how they can’t use the N-word.

The Altruists lands on Netflix on November 19. The drama, created by Graham Moore, whose previous work includes The Imitation Game, follows the romantic relationship and eventual imprisonment of Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison. They stole billions of dollars through their cryptocurrency company, FTX. The show is another attempt to humanize people who bilked regular folks out of their money, or at least explain what got them there. Anthony Boyle plays Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner plays Ellison. Alex Lawther, who appears in Alien: Earth, plays Sam’s best friend, and Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams has a brief role.

Percy Jackson takes on The Titan’s Curse. Season 3 of the Disney+ adaptation of Rick Riordan’s books arrives on November 20 and does something the movies never managed. It adapts the third novel in the series. The eight-episode season finds Annabeth, played by Leah Sava Jeffries, captured. Percy, played by Walker Scobell, and the gang set off in pursuit, weighing whether they can save their friend and Olympus at the same time. Tamara Smart joins full time as Thalia, a child of the Big Three Olympians who is both rival and ally to Percy. Guest stars include Hubert Smielecki as Apollo, Jennifer Beals as Demeter, Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite and Ming-Na Wen as Hera.

Yellowjackets closes out on Paramount+ with Season 4, also on November 20. The series began as a survival-in-the-woods drama about a girls’ soccer team that crashes in the wilderness and survives by eating each other, then forms a cult that may or may not be supernatural. It has grown wilder, twistier and much grosser over time. The big twist this final season is that the survivors are rescued, some against their will. The season shows the aftermath and what is happening in the present. The original plan was five seasons, so the show has a lot to resolve.

Mike Schur and Amy Poehler reunite on Peacock. Dig arrives November 23 and is co-created by Schur and Poehler, based on Kate Myers’ novel Excavations. The 10-episode comedy follows Poehler as the head of an archaeological excavation that uncovers something so important that the team gets pulled into an international conspiracy. Hugh Laurie and Geraldine Viswanathan also star. It is the first time Schur and Poehler have worked together since the success of Parks and Recreation, whose first season also centered on a massive hole in the ground.

Blade Runner 2099 pushes the franchise 50 years forward. The series premieres November 25 and is the first live-action TV extension of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. It follows Blade Runner 2049 and jumps ahead to a world where the android Replicants are in charge and humans are picking up the scraps. Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human pretending to be a Replicant. Michelle Yeoh plays Olwen, her Replicant partner, who is about to be turned into scrap. Their case spins out of control and turns out to be a massive conspiracy.

The Mosquito Bowl closes the month on Netflix. Also on November 25, the film is based on real-life events detailed in the 2022 book by journalist Buzz Bissinger. It follows a football game played in the final days of World War II between two groups of Marines. Peter Berg, who made Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor and Battleship, directs. The cast includes Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård and Ray Nicholson. The film gets a rare month-long theatrical release from Netflix as the streamer’s relationship with movie theaters evolves.