Full Trailer for Eerie Small Town Thriller ‘Wayward’ with Toni Collette

by Alex Billington
August 28, 2025
Source: YouTube

“Behind this door, nothing is what it seems.” 🐸 Netflix has revealed the full official trailer for an eerie new original series titled Wayward, created by actress / writer / comedian Mae Martin. Something strange is going on in this town – is this a cult or a sci-fi experiment or secret X-Men mutant school what? Ready for streaming starting in September coming up soon. Nothing is what it seems in the town of Tall Pines. After an escape attempt from an academy for “troubled teens”, two students join forces with a newly local police officer, unearthing the town’s dark and deeply rooted secrets. “The eternal struggle of the next generation…” The small-town cop suspects that the local school for teens — and its dangerously charismatic founder — may not be all it seems. The new series stars Mae Martin, Sarah Gadon, Sydney Topliffe, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Brandon Jay McLaren, and Toni Collette as Evelyn, the very mysterious founder of the academy. Along with Tattiawna Jones, Isolde Ardies, and Joshua Close. I’m curious to learn more about Tall Pines’ mysteries. “The only way out of here is through that door…” So what’s behind that door? This is such a spooky concept with so many weird things shown in this trailer. What is really going on there? Any ideas?

Here’s the full official trailer (+ poster) for Mae Martin’s series Wayward, direct from Netflix’s YouTube:

“We think you’ll be very happy here.” 🚪 In the picture-perfect town of Tall Pines, sinister secrets lurk behind every closed door. Not long after police officer Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin) and his pregnant wife Laura (Sarah Gadon) move into their new home, he connects with two students Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind) from the local school for “troubled teens” who are desperate to escape and could be the key to unearthing everything rotten within the town. As Alex begins investigating a series of unusual incidents, he suspects that Evelyn (Toni Collette), the school’s mysterious leader, might be at the center of all the problems. Created by Mae Martin, Wayward is a thrilling and genre-bending limited series about the eternal struggle between one generation and the next, what happens when friendship and loyalty are put to the ultimate test, and how buried truths always find a way of coming up to the surface.

Wayward is a new original series created by Canadian comedian / writer Mae Martin, creator of the “Feel Good” series, and a writer on the “Baroness Von Sketch Show” and “Benefits with Friends” podcast. It’s co-showrun by Mae Martin & Ryan Scott. Writing by Mae Martin, Ryan Scott, Evangeline Ordaz, Mohamad El Masri, Kim Steele, Kayla Lorette, Alex Elbridge, Misha Osherovich. Featuring episodes directed by Euros Lyn, Renuka Jeyapalan, John Fawcett. Made by Objective Fiction & Sphere Media. Executive produced by Mae Martin, Ryan Scott, Jennifer Kawaja with Sphere Media, Bruno Dubé with Sphere Media, Ben Farrell with Objective Fiction, Hannah Mackay with Objective Fiction, Euros Lyn. Netflix will debut the Wayward series streaming on Netflix worldwide starting September 25th, 2025 this fall. So who’s interested in it?

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