Seven Seconds is an American crime drama streaming television series, based on the Russian film The Major written and directed by Yuri Bykov, that premiered on February 23, 2018, on Netflix. The series, which is created, executive produced, and showrun by Veena Sud, follows the people involved in investigating the death of a Black teenager and his family as they reel after the loss. On April 18, 2018, Netflix confirmed there would not be a second season, deeming it a limited series.

Plot

Peter Jablonski, a white Polish-American Jersey City Police Department (named "New Jersey Police" in the movie) Narcotics Detective, accidentally hits and critically injures Brenton Butler—a Black teenager from Jersey City, New Jersey—with his car. Jablonski calls his fellow police officers that work Narcotics Division with him to the scene. They assume Brenton is dead and a cover-up ensues. Racial tensions explode in the face of injustice and the absence of quick resolution of the case.