Gone: A Wayward Pines Story (originally on fox.com and Microsoft app)
facebook; IMDb; Microsoft; Wikia; YouTube

This is a ten-episode "digital companion series" to the first season of Wayward Pines. I saw ads for "Gone" on TV whenever I watched Wayward Pines, but I think somehow I failed to grasp that it was a webseries, I just had no idea what the ads were about. Probably I wasn't really paying close attention. Anyway, I didn't start watching "Gone" until there were already five webisodes online. And then I discovered that in addition to those webisodes (which are about 2 and a half minutes each), Wayward Pines's facebook page also has some videos that are like 15 seconds each, which show some supplemental material.

Anyway, there's this rocket scientist named Eric Barlow, whose wife, Sarah, goes missing. She leaves a video message for Eric on her Surface tablet saying that she's leaving him, even though she still loves him. And she doesn't want him to look for her. But of course he does. He goes to her office (she's an investigative journalist), and a coworker of hers named Elena helps him, though we soon learn that she's keeping secrets. And um, there's information on Sarah's tablet about a mysterious story she was working on, which is related to the central mystery of Wayward Pines. So, Eric keeps following the clues, trying to find Sarah. I don't want to reveal how the story ends, but I will say I don't think the webseries is of any great importance to the TV series. I think Eric made an appearance on the TV show, but I don't really remember. If he did, he certainly didn't affect the plot in any way. And as for Sarah, we maybe kind of see her in one episode of the show, but she's definitely of no importance to the story. (She was played on "Wayward Pines" by Tracy Froese, but in "Gone" she was played by Ellary Porterfield.) Anyway... all in all, "Gone" wasn't particularly interesting, but it's not bad, especially considering the whole series amounts to less than a half hour.