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Here’s Our First Peek at What the New Season of High Maintenance Will Look Like on HBO

HBO has released the first teaser for High Maintenance, the stoner comedy web series with a cult following that the network announced it had picked up last year. As in the Vimeo series, Ben Sinclair stars as an anonymous weed dealer whose business transactions take him all over New York City. Now, though, his exploits will stretch over a full half-hour, as opposed to the five- to 15-minute vignettes they once were.

In the show’s early days, creators Katja Blichfield and Sinclair told Slate’s Dana Stevens that they enjoyed “the freedom that being online gives us to say whatever the fuck we want,” but that if they ever did move to longer-format television, they’d aim to keep the show’s pacing the same as in the web series. The teaser is too short to tell if any of that has remained true, but it does feature a promising array of guest stars and some lovingly shot images of New York City.

High Maintenance will premiere on HBO in the fall.