Netflix’s Latest 8-Part Thriller Is So Twisted, Fans Say They Can’t Sleep — Viewers Call It ‘Utterly Magnificent,’ ‘Disturbing,’ and Are Flooding Social Media Begging for a Season 2 After That Terrifying Cliffhanger Shook Them to the Core”! Netflix may have just delivered its darkest and most addictive mystery yet. The 8-part psychological drama has taken viewers deep inside a small town where nothing is as it seems — a place of secrets, betrayal, and sinister control that has left audiences stunned. Fans are calling it “twisted,” “magnificent,” and “unlike anything we’ve seen before,” with one plea echoing across social media: “Make it another season!!!” After that jaw-dropping ending, the question isn’t if people want more… it’s whether they can handle what comes next.

Fans were quick to praise the show, with many demanding: “Make it another season!!! I’m obsessed.”

One person wrote: “Please let there be a season 2. So many characters still deserve a happy ending from Tall Pines,” while another wrote: “Loved this season. It’s twisted and mysterious. I really hope they do season 2 following Abbie in the world and also the people who stayed at Tall Pines.”

It’s safe to say Wayward has been a hit with viewers. It’s currently sitting at number two on Netflix’s UK Top 10 TV shows and has already earned a 73% Rotten Tomatoes score.

In her four-star review, The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan wrote: “Toni Collette is utterly magnificent in this eerie thriller about teen runaways. The star plays the terrifying leader at an academy for troubled teenagers in Netflix’s mesmerising mystery by Mae Martin. It’s hard to look away from any show where evil grownups get their comeuppance…”

Meanwhile, The Independent penned: “Unlike plenty of the glossy-looking but thin thrillers so frequently served up by the streamers at present, Wayward offers something far more odd and entertaining.”

Digital Spy added: “A queer, twisty, genre-blending thriller that goes places you won’t expect, even if it tries to do a little too much at points. Toni Collette is predictably great, but it’s Mae Martin who steals the show (which they also created).”

The synopsis reads: “In the picture-perfect town of Tall Pines, sinister secrets lurk behind every closed door.

“Not long after police officer Alex Dempsey (Martin) and his pregnant wife Laura (Gadon) move into their new home, Dempsey connects with two students, Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind) from the local school for “troubled teens” who are desperate to escape, and could be the key to unearthing everything rotten in the town.

“As Alex begins investigating a series of unusual incidents, he suspects that Evelyn (Collette), the school’s mysterious leader, might be at the center of all the problems.

“Created by Martin, Wayward is a thrilling and genre-bending limited series about the eternal struggle between one generation and the next, what happens when friendship and loyalty are put to the ultimate test, and how buried truths always find a way of coming to the surface.”