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At least we have one good thing to look forward to this year: an apocalypse is coming to an end. This week marks the premiere of The Rain Season 3, the final season of the Danish sci-fi thriller.
Set in world where the water has become infected, most of the population is wiped out by the deadly rains. The only person who’s immune to this horrific disease is a teenaged boy. The Rain follows Simone (Alba August) as she does everything possible to protect her little brother, even if saving him means risking the fate of the world. Before you jump into the end here’s what you need to remember about how The Rain ended.
How Did The Rain Season 2 End?
With a whole lot of betrayal. All throughout The Rain‘s second season Simone’s (Alba August) ragtag group of survivor friends took on the arduous task of protecting her brother Rasmus (Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen). If you need a refresher Rasmus is the only person in the post-apocalyptic world who is immune to its deadly rain. Naturally that meant his own father planned to extract a cure from him, a process that would kill his only son.
Though Rasmus was immune to this disease that doesn’t mean he was unaffected by it. The disease started to become a sort of monster in its own right, attacking people who threatened to hurt Rasmus. Protecting Rasmus has always been a difficult task, but in Season 2 the sweet and religious Lea (Jessica Dinnage) paid the ultimate price. In an attempt to cure him of this tricky virus Lea risked her life and ultimately died just as Simone was delivering the cure.
That cure failed but the death still stayed. That’s what haunted Lea’s boyfriend Jean (Sonny Lindberg) and prompted him to tell the soldiers and scientists where their immune target was. Jean instantly regretted his decision but the damage was done. The ensuing pursuit and shootout saw yet another death: that of Rasmus’ girlfriend Sarah (Clara Rosager). Get ready for things to get nuclear.
Rasmus, overwhelmed and enraged by his loss, managed to harness the disease and used it to murder dozens of soldiers. His loving sister tried to stop his reign of terror because Simone is a smart and loving young woman. She knows that brutally killing people is wrong and that doing so will haunt her baby brother forever. But Rasmus was having none of that logic.
He attacked Simone’s boyfriend Martin (Mikkel Følsgaard) to … get back at Simone for being a good sister? Because he really wanted to kill as many people as possible and cement his status as the worst? It’s unclear. What is clear is that Simone was having none of these shenanigans. She shot at her brother to save Martin. Rasmus was fine because his sentient supervirus stopped the bullet. But judging by the fact that Season 3 will be the first to see Simone and Rasmus apart that one action irreparably changed their relationship.
Is Sarah Really Dead?
You know if we’re asking the answer isn’t yes. Just before Sarah died from gunshot she asked Rasmus to kiss her. You know what swapping spit does? It transfers germs, and in this one very specific case that’s a good thing. The last moments of The Rain Season 2 saw the seemingly lifeless Sarah gasp awake.
It looks like Sarah is coming back. But the real headline here is that Rasmus may have life-saving powers. Could a trail of kisses be what saves the world? We’re going to find out this week.
