Standup comic, actor and writer Mae Martin’s new Netflix series Tall Pines, about the dark side of a rural school where parents send their troubled teens, is filming in Ontario this summer.
Abby and Leila are your typical sixteen-year-old pot heads. When their exasperated parents run out of patience with them, they are sent to Tall Pines, a rural correctional school run by an unregulated, murderous cult. Once there, they face an existential battle to retain their friendship, their sanity – and their lives.
At the same time, Detective Dempsey (Mae Martin), struggling with a troubled past of their own, moves to Tall Pines at the bequest of their wife, who grew up there and wishes to return home to raise their soon to be born child.
But when Dempsey discovers the truth about Tall Pines, and their wife’s deeper connections to the evils the town protects, they must work with our two potheads turned heroes to take it down from the inside.
Tall Pines:
Episodes: 8
Working titles: WAYWARD & PROGRAMMED.
Filming dates: July 02 2024 – October 16 2024.
Showrunners: Mae Martin, Ryan Scott
Cast: Mae Martin.
Producers: Sphere Media, Objective Fiction.