Dune: Prophecy’s showrunner wants you to think beyond the hero / villain binary

Alison Schapker sees Dune: Prophecy as a story about the ebb and flow of institutional power.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films become much more disturbing once you start to consider exactly what makes the Bene Gesserit one of the most formidable forces in the Imperium. The Sisterhood’s secrecy and cultivation of strange powers are part of why those outside of the order see Reverend Mothers as almost superhuman beings. But their true power comes from

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