And through two episodes sent to critics, Theo is reacting exactly as you would expect him to, with steely determination, incredulity and a healthy disrespect for authority. Theo Yedlin (Jason Patric) being wooed away from a present-day tropical vacation with the prospect of helping save thousands of lives, which we all know means that Theo is about to wake up in Wayward Pines disoriented and unprepared to be introduced to the new reality. The second season of Wayward Pines premieres Wednesday, with Mark Friedman as the new showrunner, and in a twist I didn’t see coming, this limited series turned regular series actually appears to be an anthology in which each year a different chiseled ‘ 80s heartthrob with a previous resistance to television finds himself in the mysterious town of Wayward Pines, interacts awkwardly with a largely new group of residents, gets indignant about following the rules and jeopardizes what may be the last community of humans still alive on Earth. Then Wayward Pines proved a surprisingly successful and effective summertime diversion, and Fox decided it was actually an ongoing series and renewed it. Initially designed as a limited series, with Chad Hodge milking the entirety of Blake Crouch’s book trilogy over one 10-episode season, Wayward Pines sat on Fox’s shelf for a while and then premiered last summer promoted on the back of Empire, a hit Terrence Howard filmed many months later. Consider the strange semantic path of Fox’s Wayward Pines.
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