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The writers prudently refrain from dropping woo-woo terms like "prana-bindu" and other “Dune”-specific terminology and have the good fortune of operating in a timeframe long before phrases like the Kwisatz Haderach were tossed about like so much popcorn.

Like so many other boys his age on the islands, he watched Marcus Mariota at Oregon and Tua Tagovailoa at Alabama with a sense of awe and wonder.

At least once a month, my mother would pull birds of paradise from the downstairs bush, arrange them like so, place them in a vase and position the flowers as a centerpiece in the living room atop our mahogany coffee table.

“When he passed, it was devastating to me like so many others,” he says.

“We talked about possibly doing a surreal yellow, almost postapocalyptic look, but it just had this artificiality that we didn’t like, so we leaned into real photography as a starting point.”