Dune: Prophecy tries a different way of making its source material manageable. Rather than follow a familiar plot structure in order to smuggle in some of most bananas material you can find in the multiplex,

“We call ourselves 10,000 B.C. — before Chalamet,” jokes Emily Watson, who plays Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen. “As an actor, it’s a gift, this world…morally very, very complicated and everyone’s really messed up. But we’re playing with trying to control the universe.”

Prophecy at 3am on M-Net and at 9pm on the same day, each week.

Plans within plans are being positioning by all the players of the Imperium in HBO/Max’s Dune Prophecy and the sophomore episode, “Two Wolves,” amplifies all those machinations.