Dune: Prophecy opens with a thesis statement. It comes as the Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen (played by Olivia Williams), a member of the powerful, quasi-religious order known as the Sisterhood, instructs a group of novices in the subtle art of Truthsaying, which is used to determine whether someone is being dishonest. 'Humanity's greatest weapon is the lie,' she tells them'both the justification for the lesson and an explanation of the ethos that the Dune universe's rigid imperial society runs on. But the Sisters' weapon isn't just their ability to sniff out lies; it's also their ability to tell them. Tula and her fellow Sisters are not simply reacting to the deceptive men in control of the empire, as portrayed in the Dune books. Instead, the women of Dune: Prophecy are the show's heroes and its villains. Toying with the binary of 'good' and 'bad''and who falls into which category'is a core interest of the Dune franchise. The novelist Frank Herbert's (predominantly male) heroes are...
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