Warning: spoilers regarding the course of the show and the ultimate outcomes of it lie ahead. Tread carefully.

Writers and creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz added another television series to their resumes on June 28, 2016, when their new show Dead of Summer premiered on ABC’s Freeform channel. The duo previously worked together on works such as Lost and Tron: Uprising before creating their own series, Once Upon a Time and its spinoff series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. With the mass success of Once Upon a Time, the dream team began working on creating a new show, and we’re so glad they did.

Dead of Summer’s freshman season came to a close on August 30, 2016, when its first season finale aired. Over the course of ten epic episodes, most of the characters’ lives were taken, but it was the journey that left the audience stunned. The writers took the typical campy horror story and spun it on its head, shattering clichés in the process. Amy, the protagonist portrayed by Elizabeth Lail, was a textbook clichéd innocent teenager that worked as a counselor at Camp Stillwater. That is until flashbacks unfolded and revealed that she may be darker than she let on.

The events of Dead of Summer occur in the 1980s, granting the show an abundance of charm it wouldn’t otherwise possess if it occurred in the present. Because the setting was at a summer camp, it allowed the show to have ample diversity within its pool of characters, including people of color and LGBT+ characters. The inclusion of these characters is much needed on television, and it helped give Camp Stillwater a feeling of genuineness since a real summer camp would be just as diverse. It was ultimately a woman of color that saved Camp Stillwater, and it was a great touch by Horowitz and Kitsis because children of color need people to look up to on television, too. In addition to this, an LGBT+ relationship surprisingly survived the season, ending happily. Drew and Blair happily road tripped to Seattle, Washington, at the end of the season finale to finally see their inspiration, David Bowie, in concert.

Inclusiveness, a provocative setting and time period, and magical writing created a series that will transcend time. News of a renewal or cancellation have not surfaced, but all ten episodes of the first season are available to watch on the Freeform app.