Who will you become in the apocalypse?
It’s a question posed by Netflix’s Danish thriller The Rain, that leans into the country’s reputation and culture.
“We were taught that we were safe, that we were the happiest people on earth … so when everything fell apart, we were the least prepared,” according to Netflix’s latest trailer that revealed a May 4 premiere date.
The series follows two Danish siblings who emerge from the safety of their bunker six years after almost all of civilization has been destroyed. They join of young survivors and together set out on a danger-filled quest through an abandoned Scandinavia, searching for any signs of life.
The phrase “stay dry, stay alive” sets the tone as they discover that even in a post-apocalyptic world there’s still love, jealousy, and many of the coming of age dilemmas they thought they’d left behind with the disappearance of the world they once knew.
The Rain is created by Jannik Tai Mosholt (Borgen, Rita, Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear, Beyond Beyond) and Christian Potalivo (Dicte, The New Tenants, Long Story Short).
It stars Alba August (Reliance, Jordskott, Unga Astrid), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (A Royal Affair, The Legacy), Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen (Tidsrejen, Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes), Lars Simonsen (The Bridge, Brotherhood), Iben Hjejle (Dicte, High Fidelity), Angela Bundalovic (Dark Horse, Blood Sisters), Sonny Lindberg (The Legacy, Anti), Jessica Dinnag (The Guilty, The Man), Lukas Løkken (One-Two-Three Now!) and Johannes Kuhnke (Force Majeure).
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