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It does not look just above AoS or the Netflix shows (including Iron Fist), "imo". This trailer, to me, is the weakest reveal Marvel dropped since Marvel Studios became a thing. And that's in a context where they made a decent looking Cloak & Dagger trailer.
I have a few other thoughts about this show being a bit of a misstep from the jump, with a hard left turn from a feature to being a TV show (somebody important lost faith in it being a movie). Also it doesn't seem to have any connection to a decent running MCU TV show that spent the better part of two seasons introducing the concept of Inhumans to a mass audience. So when they announce an Inhumans show, that doesn't involve Skye/Daisy/Quake who went from annoying to great over the last four years, and expecting people to connect to a whole different sect of Inhumans, they are rolling a dice.
Perhaps you think they rolled the dice before with magic hammers, talking raccoons, and men who shrink - but this is a special case. They set up audiences with their original intent for expanding Inhumans; they want mutants. They want the narrative themes that come with mutants. But Fox has the mutants. So years ago Inhumans become this new race of 'people with powers' within Marvel comics rather than this small corner of the universe. It was speculated way back when this was Marvel Studios way of having mutants without stepping on Fox's shoes and it was correct.
Now fast forward and Inhumans become a big arc in AoS, but without any of the traditional Inhuman characters. Perhaps they felt we weren't ready for moon based monarchies at the time, but what we got was good TV. And it did well give us all those X-Men narrative beats (allegories for bigotry, comfort with who you really are, oppression, supremacy, etc). But now... they wanna pull the trigger and give us the real Inhumans. Seemingly unrelated to AoS and certainly not the X-Men allegory drama intact. In fact it seems they don't even believe in the characters' own setting, bringing the family drama down to earth by episode one.
I don't think that's going to work and they should have segued into them using AoS first, or at least making it clear how they connect/responded to all the craziness happening to earth. I'm making an argument from a casual perspective since I never read a bunch of Inhuman books. And for all I know they will link this show to AoS or the greater MCU (this starting as an MCU project). But so far I think they have bigger issues than a bad wig.
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