As evident in the first trailer for the upcoming series “The Innocents” from Netflix, the British sci-fi drama looks like yet another must-binge for the streaming service.
“The Innocents” is an eight-episode series that follows two teens who runaway from their homes. Everything is going about as good as can be expected until one of the teens realizes she has the power to shape-shift. Unfortunately, she’s unable to regain her original body and the two teens get drawn into a much larger journey that involves others with the same ability.
The series stars Sorcha Groundsell and Percelle Ascott as the teens, June and Henry, with Guy Pearce playing the role of a doctor who promises a cure for June.
Along with the release of the first trailer, Netflix has also announced that “The Innocents” will make its debut on the streaming service on August 24.
Here’s the official synopsis:
When teenagers Harry and June run away from their repressive families to be together, they’re derailed by an extraordinary discovery – June’s ability to shape-shift. As the star-crossed lovers struggle to control this strange new power, a mysterious professor reveals that June is not alone: there are more shifters out there like her, and he promises to cure June and reunite her with the mother who deserted her three years ago. But as their journey becomes increasingly fraught with danger, Harry and June’s love for each other is tested to breaking point and they’re faced with a choice: keep their innocent dream alive, or embrace that their lives have changed and risk everything. Created and written by Hania Elkington and Simon Duric, who also executive produce, The Innocents stars Sorcha Groundsell as June, Percelle Ascott as Harry and Guy Pearce as Halvorson. Elaine Pyke, Charlie Pattinson, and Willow Grylls of New Pictures serve as Executive Producers, along with Farren Blackburn. Blackburn directed six of the eight episodes.
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Good Lord.
All. That. Noise. It’s as if they lifted the sound cues from the “Inception” trailer, multiplied them 10 fold, pumped them full of steroids, and then laid the whole thing over footage from “The Fault in Our Stars”.
Does not work.