Upon going to Wayward, a weird but dangerous place, Ethan, a well-known and intelligent secret service agent, who upon the mysterious disappearance of two detectives, goes there to investigate in the case, the thing that brings terrible for him, struggles against survival in that dangerous place full of criminals.
Wayward Pines looks as though it has the potential to rise above its false starts while grippingly spooling out truths that are "worse than anything you could even imagine."
Unfortunately, the show failed for me in both key areas where it needed to work. It's not fun enough while waiting for the explanation... and the explanation doesn't do a good enough job of justifying everything that's happened before.
This title is therefore your first hint that you're not in Kansas anymore, and will have to spend all 10 episodes figuring out what state, or state of mind, this is exactly.
Likable, dynamic and intelligent, Dillon's a welcome presence and easy to hook into as a protagonist; it's almost kind of shocking that he HASN'T led a TV show before.
