Realizing that the one thing you need to survive is also the one thing that can kill you is a daunting prospect.
It’s the basic foundation of many a sci-fi dystopia, whether they take place in space, on earth, or in some other mystical realm.
“The Rain,” the latest Netflix original from Denmark, tweaks that question: What if some light precipitation could be the thing that wipes out all of humanity?For Simone (Alba August) and Rasmus (Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen), two teens who escaped a cataclysmic, Scandinavia-wide downpour, the answer means spending the better part of a half-decade inside a secure bunker, away from that unfiltered rain.
Like most other elements of “The Rain,” their method of survival seems more complicated than it actually is.
The last thing piece of advice their father gives them before heading above to an uncertain world is to…survive.
After a safe time
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