Things are getting hot and heavy for Sex Criminals. Imogen Poots and John Reynolds were recently revealed as the stars for the series based on the comic series from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Now, it’s been announced that Nia DaCosta will direct the Prime Video series as well as be an executive producer.

DaCosta will direct the first two episodes of the eight episode series. DaCosta is also executive producing and has a story credit on Southern Bastards, another series based on a comic with that coming to Hulu. Both Sex Criminals and Southern Bastards were comic series published by Image Comics.

Sex Criminals received a series order in January and the television series is from creators Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Tze Chun. Nanjiani will have a role in the series as well.

The series is about a girl who when she has sex, it stops time. She meets Jon, who has the same gift. And together, they decide to rob banks.

This isn’t the first comic based project for Nia DaCosta who wrote and directed 2023’s The Marvels for Marvel Studios and directed 2022’s Avengers Assemble: Flight Force.