Netflix just dropped the trailer for its next crime drama, and we’re already obsessed with this moody good cop-bad cop show

In case the eight Oscar nominations the streaming service picked up this week weren’t proof enough, Netflix has dropped yet another reminder that original-content-quality-wise, it’s definitely playing in the big leagues now. The tense trailer for Netflix’s upcoming crime drama Seven Seconds, a racially-charged series from the executive producers of The Killing, is officially out. And after one watch, we’re already hooked.

Seven Seconds tells the story of Brenton Butler, an African-American teen who’s critically injured by a white police officer in New Jersey. In a plot arc that feels unfortunately timely, there’s a cover-up, protests, a trial, and the painful unraveling of a community ripped apart by racial unrest.

American Crime‘s Regina King, a two-time Emmy-winner, plays Butler’s grieving mom Latrice, alongside British actress Clare-Hope Ashitey (the mysterious Sara from Master of None) as assistant prosecutor K.J. Harper, and fellow dramatic heavy-hitter Russell Hornsby (Fences) as Brenton’s dad, Isaiah. The 10-episode series will also feature Zackary Momoh, Nadia Alexander, Michael Mosley, Raul Castillo, and David Lyons.

From the 2-minute trailer, we can already tell this story is going to have us on edge.

The teaser opens with a distraught-looking Ashitey standing over a snowy stretch of ground soaked in blood, an ominous cloudy sky swirling above her. “I’m sick of their eyes,” she tells a man in the scene. “Even when they’re dead, they’re looking at you. Wanting answers.”

Seven Seconds, created and produced by The Killing‘s Veena Sud, is based on a 2013 Russian action movie called The Major about a police major covering up a deadly car accident involving a child. Considering the current racial climate in America, we’re guessing the Netflix version will take on an eye-opening life of its own.

It’s not just the snowy setting that makes this story look so chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gcUmiOlM1M?feature=oembed

Watch the full trailer above. All 10 episodes of Seven Seconds will land on Netflix on February 23rd.

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