Showrunner Alison Schapker bravely embraces her undeniably villainous qualities while simultaneously unpackingwhyshe is the way that she is.
Four episodes in, though, and she feels a little pantomime-esque, a little one-note.
Tula, Valya’s younger sister, is much more interesting.
It’simpossibleto imagine how someone completely new to Dune would fare well watching this.
The same with the beginnings of the millennia-spanning tension between the Atreideses and the Harkonnens… Just in recent years, we’ve had House of the Dragon, Shogun, and Succession.
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