The Rain: Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: May 4, 2018

Summary: A brother and sister emerge from their shelter six years after a rain-based virus wiped out much of the Scandinavia's population to see if there are other survivors in this Danish sci-fi horror series created by Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft Jacobsen and Christian Potalivo.

Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

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Collider Haleigh Foutch

May 4, 2018

The Rain‘s greatest strength might be its clever hand with doling out information. If post-apocalyptic fiction has become too rote and familiar over the last decade, a good mystery yarn never loses its appeal, and The Rain spins mysteries well, dropping reveals and intriguing tidbits with impeccable timing. That quality makes The Rain a great binge show.

Sophie Gilbert

May 3, 2018

Once you get over the ludicrousness of a killer virus whose host is the weather, The Rain is a taut, tense thriller. The first Danish original series to come from Netflix, it’s gratifyingly fast-paced and unfailingly dark. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

May 4, 2018

Though Netflix’s latest binge-a-thon doesn’t always handle the logistics of that situation in a completely convincing way, its premise provides a sturdy backdrop for the suspenseful story of a girl striving to protect her younger brother at all costs. Read full review

Mark A. Perigard

Apr 29, 2018

Despite some shaky attempts to build a convincing world, The Rain has much in common with “The Walking Dead.” Read full review

Jen Chaney

May 3, 2018

Within the first ten minutes, it becomes obvious that it will be another post-apocalyptic drama about a virus that devastates humanity, leaving precious few people behind to figure out how to scrap their way toward continued survival. If you’re into that sort of thing, it will grab your attention right away and, based on the initial three episodes made available to critics--most likely hold on to it. But if you’re at all fatigued of dramas about the demise of humanity, you may find it hard to soldier through, especially if you try to swallow all eight episodes in a sitting or two. Read full review

IndieWire Steve Greene

May 4, 2018

Despite his best efforts, for a show where humanity is under attack, you ultimately need a reason to root for at least most of the humans. The Rain never gets to the point where you’re pulling for the water droplets, but this is one barren wasteland that makes it difficult to care about anything other than surviving it. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

May 3, 2018

It's basically a mid-tier CW or Freeform show. The execution is thin, but the premise is juicy and after watching three episodes sent to critics, I have enough curiosity to keep going. Read full review

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jenky87

May 12, 2018

EXCELLENT show! The kids will get on your nerves during the first 10 minutes but their behavior is necessary to push the plot forward. I've watched the entire first season in one week. I cannot wait for season 2. If you enjoy a blend of sci-fi, horror, and adventure this is the show for you.EXCELLENT show! The kids will get on your nerves during the first 10 minutes but their behavior is necessary to push the plot forward. I've watched the entire first season in one week. I cannot wait for season 2. If you enjoy a blend of sci-fi, horror, and adventure this is the show for you. There are also some truly heartwarming moments. The characters are well-developed and you come to know them through the struggles they face. The voice overs are well-done, also. A MUST WATCH!… Expand

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Light94

Mar 30, 2020

No words. Thanks for this serie. I loved all of the characters. Martin and Patrick forever ❤️

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AmyBenevento

May 14, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I enjoyed this show. I loved the fact that it took place in Scandinavia. The older sister had to be an adult before she was ready. Her little brother couldn't develop social skills after age 10, b/c for 6 years, the only person he interacted with was his sister. Martin was a cool leader. I loved the blond girl with the braces. I felt sorry for Patrick, who wanted desperately to fit in with this group, only to have Martin turn his back on him (as Patrick's father had done). They did a nice job with flashbacks to further develop the characters.

The thing that bothered me was how the father just left them and never came back! Also, they could never take showers (no water!), but their hair was shiny clean. I can't say "oh well, Hollywood" this time.

Me – I would have stayed in the bunker with the food and security. Why they repeatedly left the safety of the bunker for the food-less dangerous outside world was beyond me.

That little utopia place where they ended up eating people freaked me out. I saw it coming, but not right away. I felt so sorry for braces-girl, because she found heart in the older lady, a mother figure for her, after her own mother practically disowned her. I was screaming at braces-girl to tell her mother that she was drugged.

Some of you who reviewed said that these people were acting immature, like children. Ahhh... they WERE children! Well... teens. Same thing. I'm an adult, and if I faced the end of the world, I'd ball up in a corner.… Expand

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Bianca25

Jun 28, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First, where The Rain gets it right; engaging characters and horrifying truth of the matter; Life isn't always fair. That ecspecially rings true when the series protganist, Simone and Rasmus both are yanked from their normal life into a bunker with little to zero contact to the outside world. Right after losing their father and watching their mother die in front of them. From here, we learn small snippets of the characters growing up, yet , maybe intentinoatlly, never really from the view point of Rasmus, the male 'protagonist.'

A great premise of survival and trying to overcome. My heart went out with Simone right then and there. And this is where it began going down hill for me as a viewer.

The director spends so much time having our hearts as viewers invest into these two and show what they've come from, 'sheltered, frightened children and a young woman forced to grow up and shoved into caretaker mode,' that seeing their following actions afterwards becomes . . .cringeworthy Or perhaps that was the goal?

Seeing every mistake, every slip made by the pair at the beginning once they've joined the group was supposed to show how out of the water they were compared to their more gritty and hardened comrades, Lea and Patrick being the **** favorites. Then, almost at the same time, they come on their heads as what was once established characters clueless caricatures of what they were written to be.

Martin, a hardened soldier that was forced to learn from his mistake and is haunted daily from hestiation, and shown to never want to do that again, constantly begins hesitating again.

Beatrice, a great ineterest and whom complicated and intriuging backstory of **** that's survived by her wit and femme fatale . . . . .uses her wit and manipulation on those that's already in her trust-

Lea . . . . she was mostly forgettable. Along with Jeane with that 'one' episode' moment from coward looter to . . . . trash?

And then, sweet sweet Rasmus.
His role can be a bit forgiving. He literally never had a chance to grow up . . . And it shows in his naevity and consistently moments where the viewer sees that 'he hasn't grown up.'

Which brings us back to Simone that wishes to chide by her father's last dying wish as far as she knew, to keep her brother safe. She uses wit, cunning, to do all of just that. . . Her attention to detail helps with this and frankly . . . some of the choices just ended falling flat when all of everyone came together on it.

This might be a fall on translation, messing with the settings, you can tell there was cultural differences.

This wasn't a heroic survival of toughened people . . .this was more a youths trying to make it together with what little they had. But there were so many points in the writing that I just wanted to skip through that it made it hard to want to invest more than I already had. Maybe it's more on the writers or the director that made their mains more support or they didn't care enough either. like, "surprise, he's not dead but he didn't bother looking for you anyways so . . . tada???"

Like it, love it, hate it, it's still a good watch and short enough to take note of. With the last mystery hook . . . Not sure if its something I may want to pick up on a season two or not. We shall see.… Expand

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ozymandias79

May 11, 2018

The new dystopian thriller from denmark, featuring blatant stupidity, annoying characters, and literally watching plants grow. Couldn't make it to the end of this show. You can play a drinking game each time Rasmus is said in an episode. Netflix - try harder.

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cyclopticow

May 16, 2018

If you enjoy a show in which the main characters make terrible (irrational) decisions, don't bother to reflect on those decisions even though it gets everyone they love killed, encourage others to make terrible decisions, and basically just uses science as a plot device while not actuallyIf you enjoy a show in which the main characters make terrible (irrational) decisions, don't bother to reflect on those decisions even though it gets everyone they love killed, encourage others to make terrible decisions, and basically just uses science as a plot device while not actually dealing with the complications that would arise in favor of teenage sex, convenient encounters, and lots of hiking, this is the show for you.… Expand

3 of 5 users found this helpful32

davidarnark

Feb 18, 2019

Terrible tv series that no one should suffer through. Don't recommend a single bit!

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Season 1

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  Air Date: May 4, 2018
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