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Wayward

TV·2025–2025·Netflix·Thriller·44m·5.7·Created by Mae Martin

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Wayward is a thriller set in a bucolic but sinister town that explores the insidious underbelly of the "troubled teen industry" and the eternal struggle between one generation and the next.

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