Overview

• The eight-episode limited series is set in 2003 and centers on Tall Pines Academy, a facility for so‑called troubled teens.
• Martin stars as Alex Dempsey, a transgender police officer new to Tall Pines, with Toni Collette as academy leader Evelyn and Sarah Gadon as Laura.
• Sydney Topliffe and Alyvia Alyn Lind co-star as Abbie and Leila, two students whose attempted escape draws Alex into the town’s secrets.
• The series depicts alleged practices reported in the industry, including sleep deprivation, starvation and “attack therapy,” while interrogating how youth are pathologized.
• Recent press positions the show as a thriller-horror hybrid with echoes of Twin Peaks, Fargo and Get Out, following a Los Angeles screening days before release.