Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Mark Strong star in a visually grand six-part series, which takes place before the events of Denis Villeneuve’s blockbusters and focuses on a scheming drama surrounding the Bene Gesserit.

Prophecy' is officially a Bene Gesserit origin story, but it often feels like Frank Herbert mapped onto George R.R. Martin. [REVIEW]

HBO’s prequel series set a full 10,000 years before the Timothée Chalamet/Rebecca Ferguson movie franchise — spans just six episodes in its first season, and a dense six episodes they are. Premiering this Sunday at 9/8c,

Dune: Prophecy debuts on HBO on November 17th and while the series is an expansion of author Frank Herbert’s Dune franchise set 10,000 years before Paul Atreides’ story, the upcoming series is already drawing comparisons to another HBO series,

Dune: Prophecy is gearing up for its premiere on HBO, so if you want to know when to log onto Max to stream it, we’ve got you covered.

A long-gestating prequel, about the women who seek to guide a galaxy, is splashy, somber and insufficiently spicy.

The new series traverses the formative years of the Bene Gesserit sect, the simmering tensions between the great houses of Herbert’s world and the wake of the war with the “thinking machines”. But with an exposition-heavy first episode,