Overview

• Netflix released the official trailer and first-look materials for Wayward, an eight-episode limited series created by and starring Mae Martin.
• All episodes launch September 25 on Netflix after a world premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival’s official selection.
• According to the logline, two students who attempt to escape Tall Pines Academy team up with a newly arrived police officer to uncover the town’s buried secrets.
• Toni Collette plays Evelyn Wade, the academy’s enigmatic leader, with Martin as officer Alex Dempsey and Sarah Gadon as Dempsey’s pregnant wife, a former student of the school.
• Martin co-showruns with Ryan Scott; episodes are directed by Euros Lyn, Renuka Jeyapalan, and John Fawcett, with production from Objective Fiction and Sphere Media.