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Dune: Prophecy

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Dune: Prophecy is set at a pivotal moment in the history of the franchise, when humans rose up against the thinking machines who enslaved them and established various orders to specialize in the tasks the computers once handled. The Bene Gesserit become essential to the universe in the shadow of that rebellion, but rather than depict how thoroughly this revolution changed reality for the remaining humans, Dune: Prophecy settles for a more Game of Thrones–lite approach, where all disputes are really about surface-level politics (with some supernatural sandworm-related stuff as window dressing) and every so often there’s a sex scene to spice things up. (Literally, there’s a lot of casual spice-drug use in this series.) — Roxana Hadadi, “Dune: Prophecy Is Stuck in Prequel Quicksand”

  1. Episode 6 The High-Handed Enemy
    Dune: Prophecy Season-Finale Recap: Going Viral The past is resurfacing for Valya and Tula, which could spell disaster for their power plays and family relations.
  2. Episode 5 In Blood, Truth
    Dune: Prophecy Recap: The Sisterhood Is Doing It for Themselves It’s getting more difficult to tell who is playing who or what the real agendas are as we near the season’s end.
  3. Episode 4 Twice Born
    Dune: Prophecy Recap: Ancient History Valya didn’t murder her rivals and cover up her misdeeds just to watch her power slip away, yet that’s exactly what is happening.
  4. Episode 3 Sisterhood Above All
    Dune: Prophecy Recap: A Harkonnen Never Forgets Wait, so this 10,000-year plan to genetically engineer a messiah was just a revenge plot all along?
  5. Episode 2 Two Wolves
    Dune: Prophecy Recap: The Agony and the Ecstasy Despite some spice-y sex and lots of palace intrigue, it’s still unclear what this show is trying to be about.
  6. Episode 1 The Hidden Hand
    Dune: Prophecy Series-Premiere Recap: The Space Witch Project HBO’s latest series of warring houses and political intrigue goes interstellar following the Bene Gesserit’s multi-millennia-long conspiracy.

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