Dune: Prophecy is a slow and cerebral meditation on the power of patience

TV Show ReviewsHBO’s new Dune prequel series sharpens the Bene Gesserit’s history into pointed drama that calls for some patience.

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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Though Frank Herbert passed away in 1986, just a year after the publication of his sixth and final Dune novel, the franchise continued on thanks to new books penned by his son Brian and writing partner Kevin J. Anderson. Few of the duo’s 20 Dune books have been able to replicate the philosophical complexity and textual

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