Say what you want about reboots and sequels, but theres something really endearing about a group of actors reuniting to see a franchise through. Thats especially true when said franchise includes icons like Nia Long, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Morris Chestnut, Terrence Howard and Melissa De Sousa.

The Best Man (1999) and Best Man Holiday (2013) hold heavyweight status in the canon of classic films that grew with their audience and made a real impact. So when filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee thought the franchise deserved an ending, he started writing.

I wanted us to get back to some fun. I mean we had fun in Best Man Holiday, but it was also very sad, Lee told HuffPost. And I wanted to have a much more comedic time with these folks. So I had that movie in mind, and I wrote it and had another movie in mind to continue and close out the series, but we werent able to come up with a budget that worked for the studio and so it was like ok lets give it a go as a limited series.

More than 20 years after the original film debuted, Lee connected with showrunner and Insecure alum Dayna Lynne North who was able to reunite the cast for a final hurrah with The Best Man: The Final Chapters. The series premieres Thursday on Peacock.

When we met them, the characters were upwardly mobile 20-somethings just getting into the stride of figuring out love, life and friendship. In Final Chapters, were reintroduced to them as life has settled in and the real adulting is happening, as Long described it.