What do you get when you mix an advertising agency staffed with ultra-competitive employees from very different generations, a huge campaign, and a massive social media blunder? Total chaos, that’s what — and one heck of a comedy series.

The Z-Suite (which premiered on Tubi on February 6) stars Lauren Graham and Nico Santos (of Gilmore Girls and Superstore fame) as advertising superstar Monica Marks and her righthand executive Doug Garcia, whose careers are turned upside down when they’re pushed out in favor of young, ambitious social media manager Madison Shamoun (Kriska Thompson) and her Gen-Z cohort. Rather than accepting their ‘canceled’ status and bowing out quietly, Monica and Doug launch a huge ad campaign of their own and declare a generational war. What could go wrong, right?

On top of Graham, Santos, and Thompson, the show’s main cast includes Spencer Stevenson as Elliot, Anna Bezahler as Clem, and Evan Marsh as Minnesota Matt. The series is created and written by showrunner Katie O’Brien (Teachers), who co-executive produces alongside Lance Samuels, Samantha Levine, Daniel Iron, Eric Wattenberg, Gary Vaynerchuk, Matt Higgins, and Jacque Edmonds. Graham and Tristram Shapeero also serve as executive producers.

“I was excited because it was created and showrun by a woman, which was cool,” Bezahler tells The Nerds of Color. “[O’Brien] is someone who also has been on both sides of acting and writing. So I was like, ‘I’m in good hands.'”

For a group of actors who grew up watching Gilmore Girls and Superstore, working alongside Graham and Santos was nothing short of a dream come true. “I’m excited for Gilmore Girls fans to see Lauren take on a TV series again,” Marsh says. “I believe she really shines.”

Thompson teases that the series also has plenty of exciting guest stars for viewers to look forward to. “There’s so many characters,” she says. “We have a lot of guest stars and a huge ensemble cast, lots of people bopping around. I’m excited for everyone to see these different [characters] that all have to work together or work against each other.”

Ahead of the series premiere, the NOC had the opportunity to chat with Thompson, Stevenson, Bezahler, and Marsh about how The Z-Suite approaches generational divides, what they learned from working with Graham and Santos, why comedies never go out of style, and much more.

Watch the full interview below:

New episodes of The Z-Suite debut weekly on Tubi. The first two episodes are available to stream now.