“Wayward” confronts the double-edged sword of being yourself

It just so happens that, concurrent to my watching all eight episodes of Netflix‘s new miniseries, “Wayward,” twice — back to back, and with obsessive interest — I’ve been reading Melissa Broder’s 2018 novel, “The Pisces,” about a lady finding herself in love with a man who is half fish. Perfect, in that, halfway through my first watch of “Wayward,” I stopped to question if the troubled youths being held in the therapeutic school where much of the show’s action takes place were being turned into frogs.

In the thriller series, created by and starring Mae Martin in the role of Alex Dempsey, a trans man who relocates to seemingly idyllic Tall Pines, Vermont, with his pregnant wife, Laura (Sarah Gadon), after a teased-out bad run of things in Detroit, the croak of toads is as much of a soundt