Kinder, Mississippi (rhymes with “tinder”) is a small town that knows exactly what it is and isn’t looking to change. So when Jake Brooks rolls in from Salt Lake City with his family and plans to build a new temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the reaction is about what you’d expect.

To Jake, the temple is a calling. To the town, it’s an invasion. The locals treat the Brooks family like they just landed from another planet. The Brooks family, sweating through their first Mississippi summer, isn’t entirely sure they didn’t.

Jake’s wife Misty is trying to square her influencer ambitions with the expectations of her faith and a town that’s already decided she’s an outsider. Their daughter Haylee starts falling for the son of the town’s loudest critic, which goes over about as well as you’d think. And Jake himself is navigating sabotage, small-town politics, and secrets of his own that could blow up the entire project.

Everyone in Kinder thinks they’re right. Everyone thinks the other side is the problem. The show lives in that gap, finding comedy in the misunderstandings and real feeling in the moments where people stop performing and actually see each other. It turns out loving your neighbor is a lot harder when your neighbor is nothing like you.