Prophecy.Set 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides and his rise as the prophesied messiah known as Lisan-al-Gaib, HBO's new Dune: Prophecy series chronicles the early evolution of the Bene Gesserit order from a fledgling school for gifted young women to the superpowered mystical sisterhood that's pulling the strings of the imperial government at the start of Dune.

W hen Denis Villeneuve made the first Dune movie with no guarantee of a second, he wasn’t just risking telling only part of the story. He risked telling the wrong one. In its en

Dune: Prophecy shows potential in its first episode, with many having compared it to Game of Thrones but in the Dune universe.