{"id":2016855,"date":"2025-09-12T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2016855"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:08:04","slug":"wayward-is-mae-martins-new-netflix-miniseries-based-on-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wayward-is-mae-martins-new-netflix-miniseries-based-on-a-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wayward\u2019: Is Mae Martin\u2019s New Netflix Miniseries Based on a True Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mae Martin<\/a> will be showing a whole new side of themself in the upcoming Netflix<\/a> miniseries Wayward<\/a>. Martin, who is known for comedy, created and stars in the new thriller, which hits the streamer on September 25. Wayward<\/a> explores the troubled teen industry in a town full of secrets. But is it based on something that Martin actually lived through? Scroll down for everything we know. What is Wayward<\/a> about? In Wayward<\/a>, which takes place in 2003, Martin plays a cop named Alex Dempsey<\/a> who moves to the town of Tall Pines with his wife Laura (Sarah Gadon<\/a>). Alex soon discovers that nothing is what it seems in Tall Pines. While working as a local cop,…<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mae Martin will be showing a whole new side of themself in the upcoming Netflix miniseries Wayward. Martin, who is known for comedy, created and stars in the new thriller, which hits the streamer on September 25. Wayward explores the troubled teen industry in a town full of secrets. But is it based on something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2016855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Wayward-Is-Mae-Martins-New-Netflix-Miniseries-Based-on-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}