Rebooting a beloved television show is always a risky move. Often, a reboot comes off as a cynical cash grab; milking a familiar concept for a new audience who may have missed it the first time around, without making any significant improvement on the concept, or even trying to match the charm of the original.

Judging from the new trailer ABC released Thursday, that is not the case with the reboot of The Wonder Years.

This new incarnation follows the Black middle-class Williams family in Montgomery, Alabama, during the late 1960s. The trailer narration pointedly reminds us that the unrest of this era will seem very familiar to anyone who lived through the last 5-10 years or so.

Changing the focus to a Black family in the 1960s is enough of a twist to justify rebooting the show. And viewers will also find the show’s core emotions very familiar. There’s something timeless about the awkwardness of being 12 years old: figuring out who you are and who you want to be, dealing with parents and siblings, and the trying to understand the mysteries of romantic love.

Dean Williams (Elisha “E.J.” Williams) is the 12-year-old at the center of the coming of age story and Emmy/Oscar nominee Don Cheadle narrates as the voice of adult Dean.

His family consists of his parents, Bill (Dulé Hill) and Lillian (Saycon Sengbloh), and siblings Kim (Laura Kariuki) and Brad (Julian Lerner).

Dulé Hill, who was a huge reason the show Psych was so enjoyable, shines in the trailer as Dean’s exasperated but loving father, and Williams makes for a relatable main character, shy but daring to go for what he wants out of life.

The series will fold real moments from history from the era into the show, such as the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

The pilot was written by Saladin K. Patterson, who is executive producer alongside Lee Daniels, Marc Velez and original Wonder Years star Fred Savage. Savage also directed the pilot for 20th Television.

The show premieres on ABC on September 22nd.