<P> The Rain is a Danish post-apocalyptic web television series created by Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft Jacobsen and Christian Potalivo . It premiered on Netflix on May 4, 2018 . </P> <P> On May 30, 2018, Netflix renewed The Rain for a second season . </P> <P> When a virus that is carried by rainfall wipes out almost all humans in Scandinavia, Danish siblings Simone and Rasmus take shelter in a bunker . Six years later, they emerge to search for their father, a scientist who left them in the bunker but never returned . Along the way they join a group of young survivors and together they travel across Denmark and Sweden, searching for a safe place, and for the siblings' father, who may be able to provide the answers and the cure . </P> <Ul> <Li> Alba August as Simone Andersen </Li> <Li> Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen as Rasmus Andersen </Li> <Li> Mikkel Følsgaard as Martin </Li> <Li> Lukas Løkken as Patrick </Li> <Li> Jessica Dinnage as Lea </Li> <Li> Sonny Lindberg as Jean </Li> <Li> Angela Bundalovic as Beatrice </Li> </Ul>

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