At first glance, Netflix’s Waywardlooks like your standard compulsive crime binge: some teens disappear, a cop investigates, secrets unravel. But peel back the layers, and it’s way creepier. Toni Colletteisn’t just intimidating — she’s doing inexplicable things with toad venom while the small town of Tall Pines simmers with cultist behavior. Still, as weird, sinister, and slightly unhinged as the show’s eight-episode plot is, it barely scratches the surface of the terrifying real-life tragedies on which it’s based. Beneath Wayward’s wild central mystery is a sharply smart take-down of an entire industry whose decades-long abuses are only now beginning to be exposed. We’re talking about the world of “troubled teen” programs.
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