It’s a bit foolish to talk about good guys and bad guys in Dune: Prophecy, a series with no obvious heroes. But that also makes it one without any clear villains, too. Desmond Hart began the series as a soldier freshly returned from a battle on Arrakis with mysterious powers; by the end of the first episode, he uses them to immolate both a Bene Gesserit truthsayer and a child betrothed to Emperor Javicco Corrino’s daughter Ynez. But in the final moments of the season, we learn Desmond is patient zero for a “thinking machine”–powered virus sweeping through the Bene Gesserit. And, oh yeah, he’s the secret son of Olivia Williams’s Tula, with whom he shares a brief but tender reunion before having her arrested. All this could be whiplash-inducing if Travis Fimmel’s performance didn’t invest…
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