Warning: When you’ve got not but seen or completed Netflix’s ‘Wayward,’ this text comprises spoiler concerning the ending of the triller.
Netflix appears to have one other phenomenon on its arms with Wayward.
The thriller thriller debuted on the streaming platform as essentially the most watched sequence on September 25 and has remained within the high spot ever since. However with extra twists and turns than a curler coaster, those that binged the sequence could also be questioning, ‘what the did I simply watch?’
So whether or not you’re curious or confused, we’ve acquired you coated.
What’s Wayward about?
Wayward is ready within the fictional city of Tall Pines, VT, which is dwelling to the Tall Pines Academy, a mysterious faculty for teenagers led by the malevolent head instructor Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette). At first of the sequence, Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin), a transgender man who’s the city’s new police officer, strikes to Tall Pines along with his pregnant spouse, Laura (Sarah Gadon), a former pupil of the academy.
In the meantime, Canadian teen Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) is forcibly despatched to the varsity by her mother and father on account of repeatedly getting in hassle together with her finest pal Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind). When Leila goes on a mission to rescue Abbie, she too turns into trapped on the faculty and compelled to attend. Although the pair initially scheme to interrupt out, they shortly be taught of the nefarious underbelly of the varsity, which includes torturing and brainwashing the scholars. And people who refuse to conform or try to flee are inclined to mysteriously disappear and by no means come again.
Quickly after arriving within the city, Alex encounters one such escaped pupil Riley (Gage Munroe), however earlier than he will help the teenager, Riley turns into violent when studying that Laura can be a former pupil, and is killed within the ensuing confrontation.
Earlier than infiltrating the academy, Leila additionally encounters Alex when she arrives in Tall Pines, and he begins covertly working with the teenagers from the within to unravel simply what’s going on on the faculty.
Including to the thriller, Alex and Laura uncover a hidden room of their new dwelling with a painted door and blood stains on the ceiling, presumably having leaked down from the ground above. Laura additionally begins sleepwalking shortly and experiencing hallucinations after they arrive on the town, and Alex catches her attempting to depart their dwelling in the midst of the night time.
The couple additionally dine with Evelyn, who Alex finds to be a chilly and foreboding presence. Evelyn, together with Alex’s companion Dwayne (Brandon Jay McLaren), additionally deter his repeated makes an attempt to research what’s happening on the faculty.
What occurs on the finish of Wayward?
Within the penultimate episode, Alex is attacked and kidnapped by Dwayne after discovering the physique of a pupil named Daniel, who was killed throughout a wilderness survival problem that the scholars have been punished with after an tried revolt. Alex awakens in a room stuffed with a number of toes of water, the place Evelyn and her right-hand Rabbit (Tattiawna Jones) put together to carry out a drug-induced ritual on him known as The Leap.
However earlier than Evelyn can inject him with the medication, Rabbit betrays her, and the escaped Alex jabs her with the syringe a number of instances. As she begins to float off into the drug journey, Evelyn informs Alex that Laura really killed her mother and father and that she’ll by no means love him. She additionally tells him that Laura underwent The Leap process as a approach to erase the reminiscences of killing her mother and father, which probably explains the sleepwalking and hallucinations.
Alex then proceeds to hurry again to the home, having discovered that Laura has gone into labor three weeks early, however on his approach encounters Dwayne, who as soon as once more assaults him. Dwayne makes an attempt to strangle Alex, nonetheless he manages to combat him off, after which smashes a big rock onto his head, presumably killing him.
Again on the faculty, Abbie and Leila orchestrate an elaborate escape plan together with a fellow pupil Abbie befriended, Rory (John Daniel), and efficiently stowaway on a faculty bus headed into city. Nevertheless, the trio shortly discover themselves topic to a town-wide manhunt, and after they break into a close-by dwelling for a change of garments Leila reveals to Abbie that she needs to return to the varsity, as her mom has since deserted her, and participate in The Leap.
Abbie and Rory flee the home however quickly discover themselves surrounded by the townspeople. They share a kiss, after which Rory sacrifices himself by distracting the mob in order that Abbie can safely escape, telling her that it’s “the most effective day of his life.”
As Alex arrives again dwelling, he finds Laura about to enter labor, surrounded by a “remedy” group she began with former Tall Pines Academy college students to beat their trauma. Nevertheless, it’s since develop into clear that the group has develop into a cult with Laura because the chief, mimicking earlier flashbacks of Evelyn beginning her personal cult. She performs a water start with Alex becoming a member of her within the inflatable birthing pool, and the cult start to take away their garments and cross the toddler round.
“It’s everybody’s. It’s the one approach to break the sample,” Laura tells a wide-eyed Alex.
Later, Abbie finds a automobile that Alex has left for her, however earlier than she will be able to drive away, Alex comes working with the child. As they drive off into the night time, Alex tells Abbie that he has a cabin in replace New York that they’ll head to because the plot their subsequent strikes.
Besides… Alex by no means really escaped and solely fantasized about leaving. As Abbie is seen leaving Tall Pines within the rearview, Alex grapples along with his new actuality, dwelling amidst a cult, on the location of a former murderous cult (as he additionally discovered in a earlier episode, explaining the blood and faux door).
Will there be a Wayward season 2?
Wayward was marketed as a restricted sequence, and on the time of publishing this text, it has not been renewed or canceled.
However given the reception, and the truth that the finale leaves a number of main unfastened ends flapping within the wind, it might not be stunning if it got here again for a second season.
Will Abbie ever reunite with Rory and Leila? Will Alex escape the cult along with his youngster? Did Evelyn’s mind flip to mush after receiving a number of doses of The Leap drug? Inquiring minds wish to know!
