[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 1 of “The Rain” on Netflix, including the finale.]Netflix’s latest foreign-language series “The Rain” falls mainly on the Danes in a soggy twist on the post-apocalyptic genre.
A virus contained in rainfall causes severe and swift allergic reactions in everyone it drenches, which means that a huge swath of the Scandinavian population caught outside is dead within minutes.Two siblings, Simone and Rasmus, literally weather the storm by hiding out in a bunker for six years and then emerge into a transformed world in which the other survivors have learned to become hard, distrusting, and ruthless.
In the end, however, it’s revealed that Rasmus is resistant to the virus and therefore is the one hope for humanity.
But wait! He’s now also a carrier of the disease and highly contagious.
Way to rain on that parade.After bingeing the downpour of all eight episodes in the first season,
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