"Wayward is a thrilling and genre-bending limited series about the eternal struggle between one generation and the next, what happens when friendship and loyalty are put to the ultimate test, and how buried truths always find a way of coming to the surface."
"Alex is a character who's desperate for acceptance, and he finds this what seems like a liberal utopia, the way a lot of those cults in the '70s did seem to promise all of the right things."
"I'm always drawn to the protagonists who are figuring things out in real time with the audience. So I wanted him to be the voice of the audience. "He's very desperate to conform and to fit in and"
Wayward is an eight-part Netflix miniseries starring Mae Martin as Alex, a trans police officer who relocates to the bucolic town of Tall Pines with his pregnant wife, Laura. Alex becomes suspicious of a local school for troubled teens and its enigmatic leader, Evelyn Wade, after encountering two students desperate to escape. A series of unusual incidents in Tall Pines puts Evelyn at the centre of the town's problems and prompts Alex to investigate. Martin frames Alex as someone yearning for acceptance, heteronormative hypermasculinity, and a nuclear family while serving as a voice for audience discovery.
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