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Netflix is capping off a week of spotlighting its young adult programming by adding to the slate.

The streamer on Friday announced a straight-to-series order for Sid & Zoey, a supernatural mystery/romance from creator Jon Kasdan (Disney+’s Willow, The First Time) and co-showrunner John Shiban (Ozark, Breaking Bad). J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are also involved.

The pickup for Sid & Zoey comes on the heels of Netflix announcing a premiere date and details for its fall teen drama The Body, a trailer for the YA sports romance Crew Girl, and a live episode of Evan Ross Katz’s Shut Up Evan: The Group Chat podcast featuring several Netflix YA stars.

Netflix describes Sid & Zoey this way: “Sid, a seductive, sophisticated, and amoral teenager from New York, is sent to live with a police chief and his family in the idyllic Mississippi town where his mother grew up. The family includes the chief’s sharp-witted, punk-rock daughter, Zoey. Resisting their mutual attraction, Sid and Zoey find themselves drawn into a dark, hidden world beneath the town’s picture-postcard facade — and a supernatural mystery that may well get them killed if they don’t kill each other first.”