In the Netflix series "The Innocents", June finds out she is a what?

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In the Netflix series “The Innocents,” June finds out that she is a shape-shifter.

June McDaniel’s discovery is the supernatural turning point of the 2018 British teen drama. After running away with Harry, she learns that she can transform into other people, a power connected to her family and triggered through physical contact and intense emotion.

The series calls people with this ability “shifters.” June’s power is not treated as a simple disguise: taking another person’s form creates emotional and psychological complications, especially because the transformation affects how June understands her own identity. Her mother, Elena, and other shifters help reveal that the ability has a history and rules of its own.

A common mix-up is assuming that June is merely impersonating people through costumes or technology. Her changes are biological and supernatural within the show’s story. Sorcha Groundsell plays June, while Percelle Ascott plays Harry. The series premiered on Netflix in 2018 and combines a coming-of-age romance with science-fiction and supernatural drama.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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