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, unexpected deaths, family truths unveiled, and the arrival on one notorious desert planet named Arrakis.

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,