Mae Martin has spoken about exploring “hypermasculinity” while playing Alex, a trans police officer in Netflix’s new thriller Wayward .

The new eight-part miniseries is created by Feel Good and Taskmaster star Mae Martin , and the comedian also takes the lead role of bumbling local cop Alex in the bucolic town of Tall Pines.

Wayward sees Alex become suspicious of a local school for troubled teens, and the mysterious woman, Evelyn Wade (played by Muriel’s Wedding star Toni Collette), presiding over it. The officer runs into two students, Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind), who appear desperate to escape the school, while a series of unusual incidents in Tall Pines lead him to investigate further, with Evelyn appearing at the centre of all of the town’s problems.

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