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.

Prophecy season one's finale "The High-Handed Enemy" This episode brings deaths, answers, and a season 2 setup.

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?

Prophecy brings all this together for a revelatory conclusion, answering some of our biggest questions from the season, while raising others that will be explored in Season 2. From revelations about the Omnius Plague to game-changing flashbacks,

Prophecy. Not that it’s an ending per se, of course. With Season 2 already confirmed, everything that happens in Episode 6, “The High-Handed Enemy”, is in service to the kind of big-picture multi-season storytelling that HBO was doubtlessly looking for in a Duniverse project.

Prophecy, then you can understand why it was hard to believe that the show would successfully wrap up its incredibly dense first season in just six episodes. Even by HBO sci-fi and fantasy standards,