As they say, nothin’ lasts forever, and we both know hearts can change, but it’s hard to hold a candle to the cold November streaming shows and movies we can’t wait to watch this month.

…Does that make any sense? Perhaps, perhaps not. But the important part here is that there are a slew of new movies and TV shows coming your way this month that are well worth your time. That includes the return of Prime Video’s big fantasy series (sorry, not Wheel of Time) which finally gets to the good stuff, a Disney+ series that has managed to lap its theatrical progenitor, and the final time we’ll get to see Paramount+’s cannibal soccer team in action.

All that plus a few biopics, an all-star heist thriller, and even one of the wildest shows Netflix has streamed in a good long time. Without further delay, let’s get into the list of our 10 most anticipated movies and TV shows hitting just like the cold November rain.

(Note: this list is presented in release date order.)

The Body (November 11)

Created by Quinn Shephard — the mind behind the well-regarded Hulu series Under the Bridge as well as director of the underrated Not Okay — Netflix’s new satirical YA drama, The Body, is not based on the Stephen King story that inspired Stand By Me. It is, however, a heady mix of Euphoria, Bring It On, Cruel Intentions, Yellowjackets, and maybe The Exorcist.

It’s a “maybe” on the last part as the show is being coy about whether it’s supernatural or not, as a cheerleading squad at a Catholic school deals with an accident that downs one of their own, with events spiraling out into cult-like behavior with shades of the Salem Witch trials. It’s also set in 2004 with a bangin’ early oughts soundtrack and a slew of new talent who are likely to blow up after this show, which seems perfectly aimed at fans of Elite, The Society, and other Netflix shows of its ilk.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 (November 11)

Those nasty hobbitses are back at it again with the latest season of the Prime Video prequel The Rings of Power, and this time — you won’t believe this — they’re finally, actually doing Lord of the Rings stuff.

That stuff includes Sexy Sauron (Charlie Vickers) forging the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom, Gandalf (Daniel Weyman) taking on a Dark Wizard (Ciáran Hinds), and Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) looking even muddier and more serious than usual.

But more exciting are the new cast members, which include Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn, the husband of Galadriel, and — bizarrely — Simon Pegg as the voice of the Balrog. On the latter, if the Balrog talks like Pegg in Shaun of the Dead, all the show’s early sins are forgiven.

12 12 12 (November 13)

Apple TV viewers missing real-time thriller Hijack might want to tune into 12 12 12, which isn’t exactly real-time though it does deal with time. In the series created by Jim Keeble and Dudi Appleton, we’re told that 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.

So guess what? Taking place in those three timelines, we follow mastermind Paul Galvin (Jamie Dornan), who’s been forced into a massive Swiss bank heist by his brother as he sets it up, executes it, and is pursued the entire time by FBI agent Jack Strickland (Anthony Mackie), who has a very personal reason for trying to take Galvin down.

Around the edges, you’ve also got a great supporting cast including Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country) and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (NOS4A2, Severance) as members of Galvin’s gang. The real draw here is the cat-and-mouse between Dornan and Mackie. Also of note? Four of the eight episodes are directed by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Kari Skogland, so reuniting her with Mackie is (hopefully) redemption for the mixed reception to the Marvel series.

Madden (November 18)

In one of the truly more bizarre-looking biopics this year — and that includes the Sylvester Stallone biopic I Play Rocky and the chocolate drama Hershey — Nicolas Cage takes on the role of the man who sold a million game cartridges (among other things) in this new movie by David O. Russell, his first since 2022’s Amsterdam.

Madden, which hits theaters on November 11 and then streaming on Prime Video a week later, also stars Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, Shane Gillis, Sienna Miller, and John Mulaney as the guy who has the brainstorm to turn John Madden into a video game.

Why has O. Russell been so infrequent in his filmography? Great question! At least part of that is the director of movies like I Heart Huckabees and Silver Linings Playbook has been accused of sexual assault and abuse by crew members and cast members on various productions. One time, he even reportedly punched a Sony exec in the stomach at an Oscar party!

On Madden, O. Russell was accused of using a racial slur on set and attempting to put it into the script, causing a walkout by the crew. That was disputed by Amazon, but of note, the film’s trailer ends with a “jokey” conversation about how they can’t use the “N” word. Boom?

The Altruists (November 19)

Netflix’s latest docudrama focuses on the romantic relationship and eventual imprisonment of Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison (no relation to Larry or David, or Larry David) over stealing billions of dollars through their cryptocurrency company, FTX.

That’s the simple version, but the drama created by Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) is yet another attempt to humanize people who bilked regular folks out of their money, or at least explain what got them there. Per the title, Bankman-Fried and Ellison started with the purpose of being ethical billionaires and went ever-so-slightly wrong along the way.

The series stars Anthony Boyle as Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner as Ellison, acting and looking like they’re in a relatively serious prestige TV version of The Big Bang Theory. Alex Lawther (Alien: Earth) also appears as Sam’s best friend, and Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams pops up in a brief role as well. If The Social Reckoning didn’t do it for you, maybe The Altruists will? After all, you can’t get to 500 million bitcoins without making a few enemies.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 (November 20)

The third season of the hit Disney+ adaptation of Rick Riordan’s books manages to pull off something unprecedented — adapting the third novel in the series, which the movie versions never got to do.

Based on The Titan’s Curse, the eight-episode season finds Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) captured, so Percy (Walker Scobell) and the gang head off in pursuit, grappling with whether they can save their friend and Olympus at the same time.

The big “addition” is Tamara Smart as Thalia, another child of the “Big Three” Olympians who serves as both rival and ally of Percy. She recurred in Season 2, but now joins the show full time. But for those wondering which guest stars will be stopping by? Hubert Smielecki as Apollo, Jennifer Beals as Demeter, Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite, and Ming-Na Wen as Hera.

Yellowjackets Season 4 (November 20)

When the final episode of Yellowjackets ends on Paramount+, will we be saying: “Oh, they ate”? We’ve still got a few months until we find out for sure, but the series that seemed to start as a simple survival-in-the-woods drama has become something wilder, weirder, twistier, and much grosser as the show continued.

The show started with a girls’ soccer team crashing in the wilderness and then surviving by eating each other and forming a cult that may or may not be supernatural. The big twist in this final season? They’re rescued, some against their will, and we get to see the aftermath of that as well as what’s happening in the present with the survivors.

There’s a lot the show needs to resolve (the original plan was to go five seasons), so how will this stellar cast in both eras wrap things up? We can’t wait to bite in and find out.

Dig (November 23)

Not to be confused with the movie Digger or Andy Samberg’s animated Digman!, Dig is co-created by Mike Schur and Amy Poehler based on Kate Myers’ novel, Excavations.

In the 10-episode Peacock comedy, Poehler plays the head of an archaeological excavation that discovers something so important, they get stuck in the middle of an international conspiracy. It also stars Hugh Laurie and Geraldine Viswanathan, among others, but the big news is the reteaming of Schur and Poehler after the success of Parks and Recreation.

Perhaps of note, the first season of Parks and Rec (aka the only Not Good season) was all focused around a massive hole in the ground as well, so one wonders if history will repeat itself here or if they’ve learned their lesson from the first time around. Either way, prepare to dig into what might be your new favorite show.

Blade Runner 2099 (November 25)

It’s crazy to think they’ve already made two thousand and ninety-nine Blade Runners before Marvel could get its act together for a single MCU Blade movie.

But seriously folks, Blade Runner 2099 is the first live-action TV extension of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, which continued with Blade Runner 2049 and now jumps forward another 50 years to a world gone topsy-turvy where the android Replicants are in charge and humans are picking up the scraps.

Enter Cora (Hunter Schafer), a human pretending to be a Replicant (depending on which version of the original you watch, either a flip on the premise or right in line with it), and her Replicant partner Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), who is about to be turned into scrap. Do they get embroiled in a seemingly simple case that spins wildly out of control and turns out to be a massive conspiracy? We haven’t seen the show yet, but you can bet that will happen… just like tears in rain.

The Mosquito Bowl (November 25)

Based on real-life events as detailed in the 2022 book by journalist Buzz Bissinger (who is not a mosquito, despite his name making it sound like he’s a mosquito), this new Netflix movie focuses on a football game played in the waning days of World War II between two groups of marines.

It comes from a guy who knows a little bit about both war and football — Peter Berg, the man behind Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, and uh, Battleship, among others. And as usual with films of this type, the cast is stacked with a who’s-who that includes Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and others.

By the way, if it sounds familiar, that’s because the movie is getting a rare month-long theatrical release from Netflix as the streamer’s relationship with movie theaters evolves. Seems like we’re getting mo’ squito instead of less squito.