Heading into the finale of Netflix's Wayward, Mae Martin's chilling, thrilling series about the highly controversial "troubled teens" industry, several seismic questions remained unanswered, one of the most pressing being: would best friends Abbie and Leila escape Tall Pines Academy?
And as we neared the show's conclusion, they were within touching distance of that freedom.
We've broken down all of the major developments in our handy Wayward ending explained – but we also spoke to Martin about what motivated Leila to say goodbye to her best friend, possibly forever, and forgo her freedom for a life in Tall Pines.
Wayward ending explained: Why did Leila choose to stay at Tall Pines Academy?
"In reading about these schools, there are some people who say it changed their life and it was all worth it. And so I'm interested in that and where that comes from, and that pain relief is a very persuasive element, right?
Martin also highlighted the fact that Evelyn had identified Leila, whose personal arc explored her complex grief following the death of her sister, as her chosen one, to speak, which also influenced her thinking.
"And Evelyn really does want the next generation of Evelyns, right?"
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But that wasn't the only significant development in the finale.
"I think the fact that he can imagine the right thing to do just brings it into focus even more that it is a bit of a moral failure," they explained. "He knows the right thing to do, and he's choosing instead to to stay.
"I'm so interested in people's reactions to the ending because I've had people say it's really ambiguous with Alex, I'm like, I don't know if it's ambiguous, or if he just didn't make the choice you wanted him to make. He chooses to stay and he knows that that's the wrong thing to do. But what would you do with your baby and your wife?
"I definitely think that yearning for acceptance and that kind of outdated idea of being a protector and a provider, I think that's so strong in him. But he's not gonna get it. It's gonna be f**ked, right?"
"And then I think power corrupts. Cults always offer a real solution to a real problem. There's always so much they get right, the central tenets are really pure. And especially for Alex and Laura, to have a community where they're accepted, that's so seductive. But then it always just gets perverted by some opportunistic egomaniac at the centre of it.
Viewers will no doubt be championing that outcome, but there's just one small problem....
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