TV
DUNE: PROPHECY
SISTERHOOD ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES
Mothers on a mission Valya
and Tula Harkonnen (Olivia Williams).
Rebel Keiran Atreides (Chris Mason).
★★★
OUT NOW (SKY/NOW) / EPISODES VIEWED 4 OF 6
SHOWRUNNER
Alison Schapker
CAST
Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Mark Strong, Jade Anouka, Chris Mason
PLOT
Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides is born, Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen (Watson) leads the Sisterhood into a perilous power struggle.
FRANK HERBERT’S DUNE has always proved fatally hard to adapt. It is material that tripped up filmmakers like David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky; only Denis Villeneuve, with his superb 2021 and 2024 films, has had any luck. You can understand why. It is the hardest of hard sci-fi, the most operatic of space opera, and about as weird as it comes: giant worm-gods, royal incest, psychic mutants, elite lesbian soldiers known as ‘Fish Speakers’, and a musical-instrument planet known as Chusuk, to just scratch the surface.