Dune: Prophecy is nadir television, a mannequin built from “prestige” television clichés and tropes draped shabbily in the trappings of a fictional universe.
It has certainly gone down well with critics. The consensus is that 40 years after David Lynch’s much-derided original Dune film, Hollywood is at long last doing justice to Herbert’s cult saga.
Even before Denis Villeneuve’s big-screen, two-part 2021 film introduced it to moviegoers who had missed David Lynch’s enjoyably bonkers 1984 adaptation, Frank Herbert’s “Dune” had ...