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Why YouTube's Wayne Season 1 Episode 5 is probably the best TV you will see this year

Wayne, the YouTube Original series, is one of the best shows out there, but for some reason has flown so far under the radar it's well on its way to becoming an underground classic

YouTube Originals made its mark last year with 'Cobra Kai', the acclaimed follow-up to the seminal 1984 film 'Karate Kid'. But this year, while all eyes have been on Netflix, Showtime, HBO, NBC, etc, YouTube has delivered arguably the show of the year, so why the hell is no one talking about it?

'Wayne' follows its eponymous hero (played superbly by Mark McKenna) as he travels on punk rock-fuelled road trip from Massachusetts to Florida to take back his father's car, 'stolen' by his mother and her boyfriend when Wayne was a young boy.

In tow is the 15-year-old object of his affections, Del. On the way there's violence, loons, sociopaths, and a never-ending yearning, on Wayne's part, to do the right thing. This is a morality tale where knocking the teeth out of a bully with a trumpet is considered a "cry for help", and burning one's dead father in his home an act of kindness.