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For the Blake Crouch novels on which the series is based, see The Wayward Pines Trilogy.
Wayward Pines
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Based on Wayward Pines novels
by Blake Crouch
Developed by Chad Hodge
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Composer(s) Charlie Clouser
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 11 (list of episodes)
Production
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Production location(s) British Columbia, Canada
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  • Amy Vincent
  • Gregory Middleton
  • Jim Denault
  • Mathias Herndl
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  • Doc Crotzer
  • Tim Mirkovich
  • Michael Ruscio
  • Leo Trombetta
Running time 42–44 minutes
Production company(s) Olive Entertainment (season 2)
Blinding Edge Pictures
De Line Pictures
Storyland (season 1)
FX Productions (season 1)
20th Century Fox Television (season 2-present)
Distributor 20th Television
Release
Original network Fox
Picture format HDTV 720p
Audio format Surround
Original release May 14, 2015 (2015-05-14) –
present (present)
External links
Official website

Wayward Pines is an American mystery science fiction television series based on the Wayward Pines novels by Blake Crouch. Developed for television by Chad Hodge, the pilot was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, with both as executive producers. The series premiered on Fox on May 14, 2015, and the first season concluded on July 23, 2015. On December 9, 2015, Fox renewed the series for a second season which premiered on May 25, 2016.[1]

Premise

In the first season, Ethan Burke is a U.S. Secret Service agent investigating the disappearance of two fellow agents in the mysterious small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho. Ethan awakens from a car accident unable to contact the outside world and unable to leave due to it being surrounded by a large electric fence. He finds one of the agents dead and the other, his former lover Kate Hewson (Carla Gugino), settled down in the seemingly idyllic town. But the inhabitants of Wayward Pines are trapped there by a set of rules enforced by the strict Sheriff Arnold Pope (Terrence Howard), and any attempt to escape is punished by a public execution known as a "reckoning." Ethan works to discover the truth and has to make hard choices when he does.

In the second season, Dr. Theo Yedlin is a surgeon who is caught in the feud between the First Generation that took over Wayward Pines following the Abbie incident and the underground rebels led by Ben Burke.

Episodes

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Main article: List of Wayward Pines episodes
Season Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 10 May 14, 2015 (2015-05-14) July 23, 2015 (2015-07-23)
2 10[2] May 25, 2016 (2016-05-25) TBA

Cast and characters

Main

  • Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke, a U.S. Secret Service agent (season 1)[3]
  • Carla Gugino as Kate Hewson, one of the missing agents and Ethan's former lover (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Toby Jones as David Pilcher, a scientist who founded Wayward Pines and uses the alias of Dr. Jenkins, a psychiatrist at Wayward Pines Hospital (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Shannyn Sossamon as Theresa Burke, Ethan's wife (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Reed Diamond as Harold Ballinger, a toymaker and Kate's husband (season 1)
  • Tim Griffin as Adam Hassler, Ethan's boss at the Secret Service (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Charlie Tahan as Ben Burke, Ethan and Theresa's son (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Juliette Lewis as Beverly, a bartender who bonds with Ethan (season 1)
  • Melissa Leo as Pamela "Pam" Pilcher, a nurse at Wayward Pines Hospital and sister of David Pilcher (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Terrence Howard as Sheriff Arnold Pope, the strict and feared sheriff of Wayward Pines (main season 1, recurring season 2)[4]
  • Jason Patric as Dr. Theo Yedlin, a confident, driven surgeon whose leadership skills will prove invaluable to the residents of Wayward Pines (season 2)[5]
  • Nimrat Kaur as Rebecca Yedlin, Theo's wife, a successful architect (season 2)[6]
  • Josh Helman as Xander Beck, a confident and charming guy working to undermine Wayward Pines from within (season 2)[7]
  • Tom Stevens as Jason Higgins, the leader of the First Generation, shown to be the new sheriff in the season 1 finale (recurring season 1, main season 2)[4]
  • Kacey Rohl as Kerry Campbell, a tough and unflappable part of the new Wayward Pines brain trust (season 2)[6]
  • Hope Davis as Megan Fisher, a teacher and later principal of Wayward Pines Academy and a former hypnotherapist who is Brad Fisher's wife (recurring season 1, main season 2)[4]
  • Djimon Hounsou as C.J. Mitchum, a historian and an original resident of Wayward Pines (season 2)[8]

Recurring

  • Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Arlene Moran, the secretary at the Sheriff's office
  • Barclay Hope as Brad Fisher, the mayor of Wayward Pines
  • Sarah Jeffery as Amy, Ben's girlfriend and fellow Wayward Pines Academy student (season 1)
  • Justin Kirk as Peter McCall, a real estate agent who like Ethan is questioning the mystery of Wayward Pines (season 1)
  • Chad Krowchuk as Tim Bell, the front desk receptionist at the Wayward Pines Hotel.
  • Greta Lee as Ruby Davis, a waitress at The Excellent Bean.
  • Krys Marshall as Elena, a journalist co-worker of Sarah Barlow.
  • Mike McShane as Big Bill, a real estate agent (season 1)
  • Teryl Rothery as Henrietta, a bookkeeper that worked for Big Bill
  • Ian Tracey as Franklin Dobbs, a clockmaker at Wayward Pines.

Production

Wayward Pines is executive produced by Chad Hodge with M. Night Shyamalan, Donald De Line and Ashwin Rajan. The pilot episode was written by Hodge and directed by Shyamalan.[9][10][11][12][13] The series was officially picked up on May 13, 2013 with a ten-episode order. Filming took place between August 19, 2013 and February 14, 2014 in Burnaby (interiors) and Agassiz (exteriors), in British Columbia.[14]

The plot of Crouch's first novel in the trilogy, Pines (2012), is covered over the first five episodes of the TV series. The second and third novels, Wayward (2013) and The Last Town (2014), make up the remaining five episodes.[15] After reading the source material Shyamalan said of the project, "As long as everybody isn't dead, I'm in", his "only rule" to secure his participation.[15] He noted that the TV series varies from the books in some ways, but as Crouch was still writing the novels while the show was in development, there was "all kinds of cross pollinating" between the two.[15] In June 2015, Deadline.com reported that Fox was considering a second season based on the series' impressive ratings. Though Hodge asserted that, from a creative standpoint, "Wayward Pines was always designed to be just these 10 episodes" in concert with the plotline of the books, he allowed for the possibility of another season.[16][17] He said that in the finale, viewers would "see a window to that, but it also is a complete ending as it is".[17]

With the tenth episode having been billed as the "series finale", the show was effectively finished.[18] However, on December 9, 2015, Fox renewed Wayward Pines for a second season, to premiere in mid-2016.[19] After the conclusion of the first season, Chad Hodge stepped down from his position as showrunner and executive producer for the series. Mark Friedman succeeded Hodge as showrunner for season two.[20]

Broadcast

On May 12, 2014, Fox announced that Wayward Pines would premiere in 2015 as mid-season replacement.[9] The series was picked up for broadcast by Fox in the United Kingdom,[21] and by FX in Australia from May 14, 2015,[22] where the premiere was the second most watched program on subscription television with 101,000 viewers.[23]

Fox made the pilot available on demand and through various online outlets from April 23 to April 30, 2015 in what the network called "the first-ever global preview event". The series subsequently debuted on May 14, 2015 simultaneously in more than 126 countries in what Fox called "the world's largest day-and-date launch for a scripted series ever".[24][25] Due to time zones, episodes of the first season aired first in Australia.[26]

Digital companion series

A digital companion series, also produced by Fox, airs alongside the weekly episodes of Wayward Pines, titled Gone and written and directed by Christopher Leone.[27] The series follows Eric Barlow, a rocket scientist, as he searches for his missing wife Sarah, a journalist, after she leaves a goodbye message and leaves him. He finds himself led toward a mountain in Idaho with the help of Sarah's colleague Elena, where he finds a man involved in the construction of Wayward Pines. Arriving at the site, a technician leads him to Sarah who is frozen in a prototype chamber, but it is really him they were after.[28]

Reception

Wayward Pines has received mostly favorable reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a rating of 86%, based on 50 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Creepy and strange in the best way possible, Wayward Pines is a welcome return to form for M. Night Shyamalan."[29] The fifth episode, "The Truth", received an individual rating of 83%, the only episode of the series to do so.[30] On Metacritic, the series has a score of 66 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[31]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominee Result Ref
2016 Saturn Awards Best Science Fiction Television Series Wayward Pines Pending [32]
Best Actor on Television Matt Dillon Pending [32]
Best Supporting Actor on Television Toby Jones Pending [32]
Best Supporting Actress on Television Melissa Leo Pending [32]

See also

  • The Lottery - a 1948 short story about a small town that practices a ritual of publicly executing its townspeople
  • "Stopover in a Quiet Town" - a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone wherein a married couple find themselves in a quaint but unfamiliar American town from which they cannot leave
  • The Prisoner - a 1967 British TV series about a secret village where spies go to retire, are brainwashed and cannot escape.
  • Twin Peaks - a 1990-91 American TV series following the investigation into the murder of the homecoming queen of the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
  • Persons Unknown - a 2010 American TV series with the similar premise of a town from which no one can escape.

References

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External links

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