There's a disturbingly sinister presence peering from a dark nebulous realm in the season finale of HBO's "Dune: Prophecy," which ended its short-but-satisfying debut season this past Sunday night with a multitude of revelations,

The very last line of the very last scene of the very last episode of a show’s first season is where “the path to our enemy begins”? (Emphasis mine.) What were we doing for the past six hours, then? Sitting in a waiting room?

It took six episodes, dozens of burning bodies, some Spice snorting, and too many betrayals to count, but Dune: Prophecy’sfirst season has finally come to an end. And, as did much of the first season,