It’s Game of Thrones without the action scenes and all the players are replaced by grumpy matrons in discreet black dresses.
By Joshua Tyler | update
If you enjoyed Denis Villeneuve The Mound films, but think they would be improved by a script written by a women’s studies major. Mound: Prophecy There’s a streaming show for you. This approach has a consequence Game of Thrones With no action scenes and all the players replaced by angry matrons in discreet black dresses.
The first episode of Mound: Prophecy Available for streaming now. I’ll only review this episode here because it’s the only one available, and the thought of suffering through another episode is unbearable.
Mound: Prophecy Starting with dancing on the ashes of artificial intelligence. 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, the human race existed as slaves to AI machines. An Atreides ancestor defeated the machines and freed humanity, which made the Harkonnens very jealous.
Thus begins the plot, built on the bones of petty Harkonnen jealousy. This jealousy is channeled by the show’s main character, Valia Harkonnen, the Reverend Mother of Benny Gassert’s sister. It seems like an odd decision to make an entire series based on a woman being short, but here we are.
Valya’s jealousy forces her to set in motion a chain of events that will replace the current emperor with an empress she controls. To accomplish this, many women are standing in rooms giving stiff, empty and emotional speeches.
And so on Mound: Prophecy Wandering from one speech scene to another, bouncing back and forth between women talking endlessly and saying nothing. This is done in the face of attempts to copy the set design of B-Villeneuve’s masterpiece. The Mound Movies, using digital backdrops and occasionally a chair purchased from Pottery Barn.
Mound: Prophecy crescendos when his audience has reached the point where they are ready to shut him up. This is when actor Travis Femal shows up, dressed as if he walked off a set on Dune. Dances with Wolves The sequel is a breath of fresh air, just because he’s a little different in a sea of blahs and because he’s the only male character who doesn’t seem like a complete idiot.
To be fair, the result only has one more male character. So it’s a 50/50 dumb to just dumb ratio. The other male character is the Emperor, played by Mark Strong. As a character actor, Strong has made a career playing smart and bad guys. So it’s strange. Mound: Prophecy He is written as an indecisive and impotent fool.
Fans of the Netflix series Bridgerton It seems Mound: Of Prophecy Intended audience. It’s unfortunate because I don’t think so Bridgerton Demographics are everything in Spaceships , and I doubt if a few scenes with women in bodices will convince them to tune in.
I’m also not sure the corsets and fancy party crowd will enjoy the slow, brutal, painful, and totally unnecessary screaming death of a cute little kid near the end of the episode. I’m not sure who would. scratch it; I think Mound: Of Prophecy The director, Ann Foster, will. I’m not sure what else would compel anyone to spend so much of their audience’s time watching this little fellow suffer.
Child murder, violence, speeches, poor digital backgrounds, and old women are unlikely to attract audiences. This approach might have worked two years ago, during the peak days of green-haired, ultra-feminism energy. That’s all but gone with the world we live in now, a byproduct of a time that, for better or worse (whatever you think), before the majority were swept up in the new rising tide of homogenous commonsensism. I have).
DUNE: The Prophecy Review the score.
