‘Wayward’ Start Production

Today Netflix announced the start of production of Wayward, a thriller by co-showrunners Mae Martin and Ryan Scott, in the Toronto area.

Wayward Logline

Wayward is a thriller set in a bucolic but sinister town that explores the insidious underbelly of the “troubled teen industry” and the eternal struggle between one generation and the next.

Wayward  cast

SERIES REGULAR

• Tony Colette
• Sydney Topliffe (Davey & Jonesie’s Locker, Doin’ It)
• Alyvia Alyn Lind (Chucky, Daybreak)

• Mae Martin (Mae Martin: SAP, Feel Good, The Flight Attendant)
• Sarah Gadon (Ferrari, Alias Grace)
• Brandon Jay McLaren (The Cleaning Lady, Snowfall)

RECURRING GUEST STARS

• Patrick J. Adams (Suits, The Right Stuff)
• Patrick Gallagher (Big Sky, Joe Pickett)
• Josh Close (American Solitaire, Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Created by Mae Martin, the limited series will consist of 8 episodes.

Extended Logline

Abby and Leila are your typical sixteen-year-old pot heads. When their exasperated parents run out of patience with them, they are sent to Tall Pines, a correctional school in rural Oregon run by an unregulated, murderous cult. Once there, they face an existential battle to retain their friendship, their sanity – and their lives.

At the same time, Detective Dempsey (Martin), struggling with a troubled past of their own, moves to Tall Pines at the bequest of their wife, who grew up there and wishes to return home to raise their soon-to-be-born child.

But when Dempsey discovers the truth about Tall Pines and their wife’s deeper connections to the evils the town protects, they must work with our two potheads turned heroes to take it down from the inside.