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The Way It Is

by A. Cole / Urban Novel Studios

Adrianna’s coming of age brings family secrets, relationships and public accountability into collision in West Haven.

Format
Series
Genre
Drama
Year
2026
Episodes
9
Running time
3 hr 46 min
Added
29 Oct 2026

Episodes

9 released · in release order

Why this series matters

Adrianna Jackson, seventeen, is negotiating her parents’ protection, a relationship with Tobias, school and the choices of the adults around her. West Haven’s overlapping family, school and civic stories make the series a sustained ensemble undertaking: identities and relationships have to survive ordinary conversations as well as moments of confrontation.

The original opening description names A. Cole as creator and writer. The series adapts Cole’s unpublished 2004 novel to a modern setting. This establishes an identifiable author and a prior story, while leaving the maker’s fuller personal identity and production team unspecified.

Nine complete original episodes

The guide preserves Episodes 1–9, beginning with Audrey Left on August 22 and reaching The Weight of It All on October 24. The ninth description uses that title, while its upload heading says This Weight of it All; both refer to the same original release. It runs 28:30 in the native player. Short excerpts are not counted as extra episodes.

The later story brings Chief Andre Jackson’s public responsibilities into tension with family life, while Taryn, Desmond, Daniel and Tobias face pressures of their own. The reason for collecting it is the continuing dramatic structure, rather than the novelty of a synthetic face in an isolated scene.

What is disclosed

The first episode explicitly identifies generated visuals and voices. The author distinguishes the original human story from its AI-assisted production. Exact tools, vocal performers, team size and budget remain unknown. Episodes 8–9 disclose shopping commissions on tagged clothing; those links do not establish who financed the series.

All nine full original descriptions, dates, current players and measured runtimes were checked, together with real release artwork. No full-season critical viewing is claimed. The studio’s separately released Tobias’s Heart is a cinematic lyric video, not counted here as another narrative episode.

Production notebook

What the makers have disclosed. Credits may be partial.

01

Creator, writer and adaptation

Episodes 1–6 credit A. Cole as creator/writer. The maker describes a modern adaptation of their unpublished novel written in 2004; the story is human-authored. Later descriptions also credit Urban Novel Studios.

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Generated visuals and voices

Episode 1 explicitly discloses AI-assisted/generated visuals and voices. Exact models, voice performers, total production team and budget are not named; later descriptions’ visual-tool language does not erase the earlier voice disclosure.

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Commercial disclosure

Episode 8 discloses commission from qualifying purchases through YouTube Shopping clothing links. Episode 9 also carries tagged-product commission disclosure. This is not evidence of a separately financed brand commission or a known production budget.

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