Ive read a large chunk of the books, although only Franks more than once, Brians are to, erm, spicy shall we say to get read more than once.
Not impressed so far as they introduced too many characters in too short a time period with the majority of them not getting defined well enough to stick with who is who, and what they want. I think there was like eight main characters introduced? Contrast that with the Landman premier (which has entirely different problems) that focused on introducing a far smaller number even though it has a wider cast waiting the wings, some of whom are quite big names.
I also did not like that the interesting bit, how the Bene Gesserit actually got first started being trusted by the houses to where every one of them wanted their own was like 2 minutes. Its like they wanted to focus on stuff relevant to the recent movies to keep people interested but 10000 years is a huge time gap to be sitting at the same point all that time. Would have made more sense to start further back IMO.
It just feels like different writers are responsible for writing different characters stories and they being mushed together than than planned as a cohesive whole.
I will give it another episode or two to see how it evolves but at the moment it feels like a space opera version of the Wheel of Time show (not the book) more than anything else.