First look at the Scandinavian sci-fi series.
For a small nation, Denmark has been punching above its weight by producing some of the most acclaimed TV shows of recent years with the likes of The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge. Now Netflix have gotten in on the Danish TV game with The Rain, the first Danish original series from the streaming giants.
The Rain is set in a near future version of Scandinavia where most of the population has been wiped out by a virus carried in the rain. A young band of survivors embark on a journey to find life.
The Rain will premiere on Netflix later this year.
The official synopsis reads:
The world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wiped out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish sibling emerge from the safety of their bunker to find all remnants of civilisation gone. Soon they join a group of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any sign of life.
Set free from their collective past and societal rules the group has the freedom to be who they want to be. In their struggle for survival, they discover that even in a post-apocalyptic world there’s still love, jealousy, coming of age, and many of the problems they thought they’d left behind with the disappearance of the world they once knew.
Who will you be when the rain comes?