As a person who likes but doesn’t love the recent Dune movies, I wondered how a prequel series might hold up without the cinematic budget, technical acumen, and overall grandeur of director Denis Villeneuve. Turns out, it makes for an exceedingly dull affair that generically plays like Game of Thrones in Space. The performances are fine, I suppose, but the characters (of which there are way too many) are wholly uninteresting, failing to give the audience a reason to invest in the convoluted story that lacks the stakes and shadowy intrigue it’s so desperately trying to capture. Prophecy is only for the nerdiest of Dune nerds.