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‘The Innocents’: She stole my skin!

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What you have to remember, what the show keeps trying to remind you with oh so fraught Capulet and Montague over there, is that these two kids thought they were running away together before all this nonsense began. That doomed teenage romance is determinedly the heart of the show, despite all the extra odd shit going on around them.

So June MacDaniel (Sorcha Groundsell) is on a very short leash from her gruff father John (Sam Hazeldine). He escorts her to school, controls her phone, and oh by the way, is moving June and her brother Ryan (Arthur Hughes) to the middle of nowhere, someplace called Fair Isle.

Today is the last day and in theory they’re all going, but it also happens to be a very big day for June, a very special and potentially very bad day for her, because she’s now wearing someone else’s face and ohmygod body and trying to convince her beloved boyfriend Harry (Percelle Ascot) its still her. Those mirrors are a eye-opener, and its painful to watch him beg her from the other side of the glass. But this is really for-reals, and Harry promised he would always protect her no matter what, so the chosen two cling to each-other and desperately wonder what to do next.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Norway at a place called Sanctum, there is some definite strange doings happening. The good doctor, Halvorson (Guy Pearce), does these awful experiments on these women, all of whom seem to be here more or less voluntarily. So they keep insisting. The eldest, Runa (Ingunn Beate Oyun), always teeters on the edge of sanity, exploding in Norwegian only to be chastised for it and desperate for the good doctors love; June’s mother, Elena (Laura Birn), also here of her own free will but a mere ghost of herself, pale and stuttering and sad, always untouched; and the newcomer, Sigrid or Siggy (Lise Risom Olsen) as she prefers, tending the garden and blissfully committing to her lessons while dreaming, someday, of leaving Sanctum forever. The good doctor wants June to come to Sanctum very much, for her mothers sake of course he insists a bit too strongly, so much he’s actually willing to come get her himself, once she’s finally located.

Our lovers have met a myriad of underworld characters along the way, but Kam in particular is the one that sticks with everyone the most. And why not? Oh, Kam (Abigail Hardingham) hates what she is, the good doctor calls it a shifter, same as June and her mother. Kam’s mom happened to be a shifter too, once upon a time. Harry’s mom Christine (Nadine Marshall) of course happens to be a cop, and everyone from June’s dad and brother, to extraneous cops and all sorts of weird videos, have been involved in the hunt for June at this point.

In the end Juliet, or rather June, makes a decision that sets in motion a whole bunch of bad things, that eventually lead to potentially good things or at least new beginnings. But we all know, with rebirth usually comes a good deal of preceding destruction.

There is of course the possibility of a season two, but I’d debate that by then, June and Romeo, or rather poor Harry, will be quite a bit more experienced and far less innocent.

Catch the oddest Netflix show to come out since ‘The OA’, and compare the interesting similarities to ‘The Innocents’, on Netflix now!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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Comic-Con 2024: Those About to Die Activation

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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