Two episodes in...hmmm...the storyline feels just like the two movies, but now in a drawn out TV show arc.
You get about half an episode of the Bene Gesserit becoming who they are, but in expediting that story, they put you right into a familiar plot. Maybe they turn it around and further expand on the Bene Gesserit along with the machine wars, but for me, as a fan, I would have preferred to see more machine war story telling (more origin), along with the great houses and the Bene Gesserit. Skipping all that presents nothing new.
It's now politics, sex and drugs...
Also, 10k years is a significant amount of time. It seems more harmful to the storyline given this is happening before the two movies. Is it me, or does that make the great plan of the Bene Gesserit seem less of an achievement, and more of the general passing of 10k years!