"From sea to shining sea, the US is filled with privately run therapeutic institutions that promise to rehabilitate difficult teenagers and turn them into civilised members of society. They are often transported there by teen escort services, who come for the unsuspecting adolescents in the middle of the night and remove them against their — though not their parents' — will from the family home."
"That is the background against which Mae Martin, standup comedian and writer of the immaculate comedy, Feel Good, has created the eight part mystery drama Wayward. (Martin is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. Their character in Wayward, a cop called Alex Dempsey, is a trans man. Martin's mesmeric presence, comic timing and occasional air of possession by a baffled duckling endure)."
Privately run US therapeutic institutions form a multibillion-dollar troubled-teen industry that claims to rehabilitate difficult adolescents into civilised members of society. Teen escort services often take adolescents from family homes in the middle of the night, removing them against the teens' will though with parental permission. Wayward, an eight-part mystery drama created by Mae Martin, is set in 2003 and examines this background through Alex Dempsey, a trans man and cop who moves with his pregnant wife back to her Vermont hometown after a traumatic shooting. The show cultivates an eerie recent-past atmosphere, avoids smartphones, and foregrounds Martin's mesmeric comic presence.
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