Wayward

About Wayward

A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens — and its dangerously charismatic founder — may not be all it seems.

Wayward is a mystery series made for Netflix. Mae Martin stars as Alex Dempsey, Sarah Gadon as Laura Redman, Alyvia Alyn Lind as Leila, and Sydney Topliffe as Abbie.

It reached one season of 8 episodes from September 2025.

Members will find cult, secret, lesbian relationship, and mysterious disappearance in it. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It scores 6.2 out of 10 from 192 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

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