We all know what Philip Larkin had to say about parents . It’s hard to argue with his gleefully profane poem, which has become a sort of secular gospel, about how people can’t help passing their flaws down the family tree. But humanity has yet to devise a method of raising children superior to the nuclear family. Is such a thing even possible, let alone desirable?

This is the question that propels Netflix’s Wayward , an extraordinary new series from the comedian and Feel Good creator Mae Martin . Combining elements of psychological thriller, teen drama, and police procedural—earnest genres that benefit from a dose of Martin’s downbeat humor—it tweaks familiar tropes in service of a narrative whose ideas about family are novel. As it touches on hotly debated topics, from trans ide

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