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Dune: Prophecy – Season 1, Episode 1 The Hidden Hand

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Dune: Prophecy – Season 1, Episode 1

The Hidden Hand

Aired Nov 17, 2024

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On Wallach IX, young Valya Harkonnen promises Mother Superior Raquella that she'll protect the Sisterhood by putting one of their own on the Imperial Throne; thirty years later, Valya faces a threat to her long-awaited plan.

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Alex Abad-Santos

Vox

11/27/2024

Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.

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Proma Khosla

IndieWire

11/25/2024

C+

While “The Hidden Hand” is clear once it gets going, the prologue establishes a clunky momentum that doesn’t quite propel the episode through its 66-minute runtime.

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Scott Tobias

New York Magazine/Vulture

11/18/2024

3/5

Dune: Prophecy reveals the obvious, which is that humans are imperfect and often at cross-purposes and it’s a miracle we can come together to make a club sandwich, much less create the defining force of the universe.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin

Reactor

Dec 8

[...] it’s all a bit ridiculous that things could be so familiar because this is over 10,000 years before the events of Dune.

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Ryan Britt

Esquire Magazine

11/28/2024

Dune: Prophecy is not a horrible show, and gets significantly better than its first episode, which is saddled with exposition-heavier than several giant sandworms.

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James Preston Poole

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

11/24/2024

6/10

After Dune: Prophecy Episode 1, there’s reason to be cautiously optimistic. The world continues to be well-realized, but the characters lack a certain depth that would send it over the edge.

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Synopsis

On Wallach IX, young Valya Harkonnen promises Mother Superior Raquella that she'll protect the Sisterhood by putting one of their own on the Imperial Throne; thirty years later, Valya faces a threat to her long-awaited plan.

Director: Anna Foerster
Executive Producer: Alison Schapker, Diane Ademu-John, Anna Foerster, Jordan Goldberg, Mark Tobey, John Cameron, Matt King, Scott Z. Burns, Jon Spaihts, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert
Network: HBO
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 17, 2024