King of the Hill aired the final episode of its original run on Sept. 13, 2009, when then-President Barack Obama still enjoyed a double-digit net approval rating, the BlackBerry was still the premier smart device, and Donald Trump seemed to be fading permanently from public life as The Apprentice‘s schtick wore thin.

At the risk of staring like a bovine Buddha into the middle distance and invoking the good old days like series protagonist Hank Hill, something seems to have gone awry since that moment — the antisocial, social media-induced cultural spiral, a national dumbing-down of educational standards, and the legacy of economic inequality and immiseration that the Great Recession left festering in its wake. This is the world that Hank and his family return to in a series continuation that brings them back to Arlen, Texas, circa 2025, an updated caricature of series creator Mike Judge’s native cookie-cutter Dallas suburbs.