Producer Drew Johnson, who now lives in Ohio, explained that even though this is nonfiction, it's not meant to be journalism.

You know, the style that we ended up finding was this was a very observational style, a style that I think beget our approach, which was which was letting the residents speak and be themselves and show who they are, because it felt like and they had a lot of the residents we spoke to, it felt like they were not being portrayed accurately by the media that was there.

So this approach of what happens when we set the camera in a place and we don't move it.

And even though this was a tragic event, producer Drew Johnson did find hope through the people of East Palestine.

There is a resilience to people of the Midwest.

None of these residents wanted this to happen.

But given the information that it did happen, everyone did their best and they did what they thought was, you know, and they still think is the best thing for them.

And like, that's the end of it, you know.