Wayward Trailer and Key Art Revealed by Netflix
Today, Netflix unveiled the official trailer and key art for the new limited series Wayward. The series will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be available on Netflix on September 25, 2025.
Nothing is what it seems in 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.
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 in 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 to the surface.
The eight-episode series stars Mae Martin, Sarah Gadon, Sydney Topliffe, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Brandon Jay McLaren, and Toni Collette. The returning cast members are Tattiawna Jones, Isolde Ardies, and Joshua Close.
The guest stars include Patrick J. Adams, Patrick Gallagher, Gage Munroe, Byron Mann, and Mark McKinney.
Mae Martin and Ryan Scott are the showrunners and executive producers, alongside Jennifer Kawaja, Bruno Dubé, Ben Farrell, Hannah Mackay, and Euros Lyn.
Wayward is directed by Euros Lyn (episodes 101, 102, 107, and 108), Renuka Jeyapalan (103 and 104), and John Fawcett (105 and 106).
The writers include Mae Martin (101), Ryan Scott (102), Evangeline Ordaz (103), Mohamad El Masri (104), Kim Steele (105), Kayla Lorette (106), Alex Elbridge & Ryan Scott (107), and Mae Martin & Misha Osherovich (108).
