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fromInverse
5 days ago
Television

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Best Cult Thriller Of 2025

Wayward is a surreal cult thriller about the troubled-teen industry, linking a 1997 abduction to a sinister boarding school, Tall Pines Academy.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago
Television

Wayward review Toni Collette is utterly magnificent in this eerie thriller about teen runaways

Wayward exposes the abusive US troubled-teen industry through Mae Martin's 2003-set mystery drama about teenagers taken to private therapeutic institutions.
fromVulture
1 week ago

All the Signs That Wayward Was Heading Toward That Wild Conclusion

The central hub of Tall Pines is the radical teen-rehab facility (read cult-coded prison) for which the town is named, run by the enigmatic and intense Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette), who has an ironclad hold on the denizens of both the town and the facility. Even though we can all agree that we'd probably follow Collette and her expressive eyebrows anywhere, she cuts a menacing figure as the controlling maternal figure who looms over the town, monitoring every move for signs of dissent.
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