Netflix's Wayward not renewed for a second season

Netflix's psychological thriller Wayward has not been renewed for a second season, the streamer confirmed, even as the show's creator and cast say there is room to continue the story after the eight-episode limited run that premiered on September 25. The series, created by and starring Mae Martin and featuring Toni Collette, Sarah Gadon, Alyvia Alyn Lind and Sydney Topliffe, is set in the fictional town of Tall Pines, Vermont, and centers on the secretive Tall Pines Academy and its enigmatic head teacher, Evelyn Wade.

Wayward closes on a deliberately unresolved note. The finale sees Abbie, one of the academy's teen inmates, escape the town; her friend Leila elects to remain; Alex, a police officer who had been helping the girls, chooses to stay with his wife Laura and their newborn; and Evelyn is incapacitated after overdosing on the hallucinogenic drug she used in the academy's coercive ritual known as the Leap. The ending leaves several central questions open, including Evelyn's ultimate fate, the futures of Leila and Abbie, and whether Tall Pines' patterns of control will persist under Laura's emergent leadership.

Martin has described the series as drawing on personal...