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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Wayward

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the new Netflix series Wayward, Toni Collette plays a deeply creepy woman who runs a facility that promises to fix troubled teens. A cop (Mae Martin) moves to town with his wife, who's a graduate of the facility and an acolyte of its leader. And he starts to think something is very, very wrong. Things are not all they seem in the picturesque town of Tall Pines, but you’ll have to watch to find out why. 


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In the new Netflix series Wayward, the picturesque town of Tall Pines is home to a facility

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that promises to fix troubled teens shipped in from far and wide. The deeply creepy

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woman who runs the place is only more unsettling because she's

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played by Tony Colette. And when a cop moves to town with his wife, who's a graduate of the

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facility and an acolyte of its leader, he starts to think something is very, very wrong. I'm Linda

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Holmes, and today we're talking about Wayward on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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