As someone who loved the original trilogy but have only ever heard bad things about Brian Herbert's prequel books, I was pleasantly surprised to have liked this as much as I did. Great characters, writing, soundtrack, and set design. My only complaint is that the pacing of the finale was rushed. Could have used 2 or 3 more episodes to play that out.

As someone who loved the original trilogy but have only ever heard bad things about Brian Herbert's prequel books, I was pleasantly surprised to have liked this as much as I did. Great characters, writing, soundtrack, and set design. My only complaint is that the pacing of the finale was rushed. Could have used 2 or 3 more episodes to play that out.

Brian Herbert (and... Kevin Anderson) wrote many "precuels" of Dune, as well as the two final books of the original series, based on the work of Frank Herbert. In this case, "Bene Gesserit" is part of a trilogy about the great "Schools" in Dune's universe: the Bene Gesserit ("Sisterhood of Dune"), the Mentats in "Mentarts of Dune" (humans with gifted brains trained as "bio-computers" due to the prohibition of machine-based AI after the Butlerian Jihad) and the Navigators. Of course, if you are not interested in the books and rely only in the movies, there is a LOT you are missing about he story. :-)