let's start by saying that this is no "perfect show"

it has its flaws, some are annoying (like some characters decision making) and some are boring (i found some scenes just...kind of hard to watch. mainly because they were not that interesting)

so yeah, if you are going to watch this show it's not like you will finish it and say damn that is now my favorite show of all time or I mean you can but that means that it's probably your first tv series or something lol

what I do have to say is this: the show does a really good job of making you feel the "weight" of certain events. You always assume important characters would have plot armor because, well, they are the most important and they get characterized the most...you can't really characterize a dead body anymore, except for a couple flashback maybe.

What I'm trying to say is that usually important characters in dangerous situations don't feel interesting because you know they are going to make it, but here...they die. Like, you think they are gonna be fine but then they die. And everybody feels it. The weight of someone's death is really really felt in this show, even more in the end.

a lot of important characters die in this show, some have very meaningfull deaths, other have deaths that feel much less "orchestrated" but that's great because you don't always go out in crazy ways. sometimes you just die and that's it.

and since the show wasn't afraid of just killing off anybody really, they were able to really surprise me. they really caught me off guard quite a bunch of time.

if you love the concept of a virus in the rain killing people, give this show a watch. it shifts more on the virus itself later but it's still a cool concept and even thought the story isn't perfect it can be enjoyed and it's not even that long, like season 3 is 6 episodes, A LOT of stuff happens in those 6 episodes but it's really not that long of a series.

While not without its charms, The Rain is filled with moments where you'll be wondering "why did they do that", "couldn't they have just...", "they dont seem to be very upset about that person dying", why are they so upset about this person dying" or just "why?!"

Season 1
Too much off this show fails to make sense or is just plain convenient, even from the very start, when dad is speeding along the motorway and turns to speak to his painfully annoying son - the daughter and mum were somehow failing to get him to put his seat belt on. This error of judgement sees dad have a near miss with a truck, the truck in turn tries to swerve but topples onto it's side neatly blocking the road. Dad decides that the family will go on foot and by the magic of editing they seem to make very good time which makes it seem like it was probably better than driving anyway.

Throughout the show people who have been living in the zone for years and are very aware of the dangers, dont seem to have developed any good strategies for preserving their safety - beyond very basic plans such as getting to cover before it rains, the rain that never seems to catch them by surprise as rain often does in real life. apparently these people have all become experts at reading weather patterns and can move around with confidence that not even a drop of the deadly rain will land on them. Perhaps this shared expertise in meteorology is so advanced and obvious that they don't even need to acknowledge it.

Nobody has every heard of checking someone's vital signs, as they all posses that special film expertise of being able to confidently asses someone's vitals just by looking at them for a moment.... Don't pass out or you might be assumed dead and left behind.

Most of the characters spend a good portion of the series being quite annoying, Beatrice being the only one whose character seems more interesting, or at the very least more consistentantly likable and as such the only character I felt any genuine concern for. I actually think some of the reviews are too harsh on the acting, while it's sometimes patchy I think the poor script is to blame.

Season 2
I was considering whether it was worthwhile putting myself through another seasons of this show and read the other reviews here. The general feeling seemed to be that season 2 was a big improvement so I decided to give it a bit more time. Season 2 was in fact much better even if not without moments of season 1's silliness - one of my favourites was when someone thinks they have been locked in a room. It's been well established that it has keypad entry but they try and open the door with the handle and freak out thinking their suspicions are confirmed. Of course the door wouldn't have opened with the code anyway so when they do eventually punch the code in they find that it has been jamed shut.

Lea and Jean thoroughly irritate me through both seasons and I find their dysfunction is much harder to watch than other characters... Why are the plants dying, I'm So depressed... then, wow you fixed the plants... then I want to destroy all the plants... blah blah blah.

While better than season 1, 2 does devolve into a bit of a weepy soap opera at times. Most of the rain in season 2 seems to be from all the blubbering.

If they make a season 3 I'll probably keep watching as it felt like it was just becoming good at the very end.