Dune: Prophecy , the new HBO prequel series to the blockbuster film franchise, begins with one of the most hilariously hasty exposition dump montages I’ve ever seen. Think of the great exemplars of this form: Cate Blanchett’s winding narration of Sauron’s rise and mankind’s near-fall at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring ; Ray Liotta’s chatty memoir of his childhood life of crime at the beginning of Goodfellas ; Linda Hamilton’s ominous fugue at the beginning of T2: Judgment Day .

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