Amid the sacred stone walls of the Sisterhood’s fortress-like headquarters on the planet Wallach IX, the acolytes of Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) and Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams) in “Dune: Prophecy” struggle to make sense of the strange happenings of their order as forces internal and external try to destroy their influential … Read more
There’s a disturbingly sinister presence peering from a dark nebulous realm in the season finale of HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy,” which ended its short-but-satisfying debut season this past Sunday night with a multitude of revelations, unexpected deaths, family truths unveiled, and the arrival on one notorious desert planet named Arrakis. After last week’s startling reveal that … Read more
It’s almost difficult to fathom that we’ve just witnessed the penultimate episode of “Dune: Prophecy’s” six-episode debut season and we’re going to miss this immersive series from creators and executive producers Alison Schapker and Jordan Goldberg. Let’s pray that the season finale makes a second outing irresistible for the studio. With Valya’s ruse last week … Read more
HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy” is lurching towards its season finale on Dec. 22, but before we’re further embroiled in the heated court politics of House Corrino and Valya Harkonnen’s vengeful thirst for power and Sisterhood control comes to a head, fans were treated to some intimate time with the two brooding patriarchs, Evgeny Harkonnen (Mark Addy) … Read more
Fill a glass of spiked eggnog as we streak toward the finish line of “Dune: Prophecy!” The cold stone walls of the Harkonnen brood’s gothic apartment on Salusa Secundus are a bit more accommodating than the smell of furry leviathan flesh inside their bleak hovel on the chilly planet of Lankiveil many decades earlier, and … Read more
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” One of the obvious questions when it comes to portrayals of the “Dune” universe, whether in film, comics, books, or HBO’s new prequel show Dune: Prophecy, is … Read more