Streaming giant Netflix is gearing up to take on the true crime genre with a new addition to their December plate of originals.

"Making a Murderer" will be a 10-part documentary series about a true crime event that happened with shocking twists and turns along the way.

According to E! News, the series will focus on the story of Steven Avery, who was tried and convicted of a brutal crime, only to be later exonerated. What happened after his exoneration is just as intriguing as what happened to him before he went to prison.

The series takes a look at Avery through an intimate lens and focuses on the events of his own life as well as the events that took place around him.

It portrays him as "an outsider from the wrong side of the tracks, convicted and later exonerated of a brutal assault. His release triggered major criminal justice reform legislation, and he filed a lawsuit that threatened to expose corruption in local law enforcement and award him millions of dollars. But in the midst of his very public civil case, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime."

The series comes from directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, who spent nearly a decade making the show. They were intimately close with the details surrounding the case and were able to make the series with their own firsthand knowledge of the circumstances that Avery went through as well as the police corruption that followed.

"Our partnership with Netflix has allowed us to tell this story in a way that wouldn't have been possible anywhere else," Ricciardi and Demos said in a joint statement released.

The show will be premiering on Netflix on Dec. 18 and will come just in time to binge-watch over the holidays. There has been no word yet if there will be other true crime documentaries coming to Netflix following this release.