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Netflix’s Wayward follows Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin), a detective uncovering dark secrets at Tall Pines Academy, a school for troubled teens.

The hit Netflix series draws from Martin’s own experiences and their friend Nicole’s time at a troubled teen school.

Martin also researched the real-life religious movement Synanon, whose confrontational therapy methods and controversial practices influenced Wayward .

Netflix’s hit drama series, Wayward , stars Mae Martin as a detective who moves to the small town of Tall Pines, only to discover that the town and its school are hosting a heap of deadly secrets.

In Wayward , which is set in 2003, Martin’s Alex Dempsey investigates the town’s school for “troubled teens,” Tall Pines Academy, and its eclectic leade

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