Chase Chrisley Jokes His Family’s ‘Raw’ New Series Made Him Think, ‘Can We Go Back to Chrisley Knows Best?’

It’s no secret that the Chrisley family’s new Lifetime docuseries will be unlike any of their past shows — and Chase Chrisley is sharing all the nitty gritty details about what’s to come.

“It’s very different than Chrisley Knows Best, because as I’m sure anyone knows, Chrisley Knows Best was a family sitcom,” Chase, who launched his new Gold Drop zero-alcohol seltzer brand on July 1, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “This is just raw, raw footage, raw. I’m like, ‘Can we go back to Chrisley Knows Best?’ Yeah, ‘Let’s just laugh.'”

Chase teases that they “definitely do” bring laughs into the fold, but it’s still showing more of “the truth” behind what the family is actually going through.

PEOPLE revealed in May that Chase and fellow Chrisley family members Savannah Chrisley, Grayson Chrisley, Chloe Chrisley and Nanny Faye Chrisley were returning to the small screen in a series that showed them facing “the challenge of carrying on the Chrisley name and legacy on their own with only phone calls and brief visits with their incarcerated parents,” Todd and Julie Chrisley.

Though Todd and Julie were not originally involved in the series, things changed when they were released from prison early, following a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Todd, 57, and Julie, 52, were not expected to be involved in the new series, which sees Chase, 29, and Savannah, 27, stepping up as producers, while they were behind bars. However, upon their sudden early release from prison, cameras were picked back up to film the couple’s long-awaited reunion — and more.

“We were actually at the tail end of filming. We’re still filming a little bit,” Chase shares.

“I feel like for so long on Chrisley Knows Best, I played a character. Savannah played a character. We all did,” the Chase Chrisley Collection founder continues. “We’re actually being able to be open and vulnerable, and show the highs, and show the lows, and no matter how low we get kicked down, we’re still going to get back [up].”

He adds that fans who tune in are “going to get a full breakdown” on everything.

Chase teases how the tone of the show shifted as his parents became a part of the new series.

“My dad is my dad. He came out guns blazing. He’s ready for anybody and everybody,” he says. “Anybody that knows anything about my dad knows that it’s changed.”

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At the end of the day, Chase is just happy to have his parents back at home.

“It’s an amazing adjustment, obviously. I feel like throughout the entire process, even once, after the conviction, even after they went away, I knew deep down that like, ‘This is not it. This is not the end result,'” he says. “So I feel like I was just carrying around, just waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for something to happen. Thank God to President Trump [that] something did, something great happened. It’s like a weight lifted off my shoulders.”