Wayward

Matt Roush says...

“Something’s off about this town,” said everybody who ever stumbled into a seemingly peaceful small town with dark secrets. But new police deputy Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin, star and creator), a trans transplant from Detroit with a pregnant wife (Sarah Gadon), isn’t wrong about the leafy Vermont hamlet Tall Pines and the nearby cult-like reform school shaping young delinquent minds, run by the unnervingly beatific wellness guru Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette, perfectly cast). The eight-part limited series juxtaposes Alex’s search for answers with the ordeal of two new Tall Pines Academy recruits, best friends and bad influences Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind), as they experience the school’s bizarre and terrifying curriculum of radical therapy.

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