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‘Dickinson’ Season 2 Review: Apple TV+’s Genre-Busting Series Leads With Its Heart
Like the poet Emily Dickinson herself, Apple TV+’s comedy/drama/whatever Dickinson leads with its heart. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the transcendent second season of the series, which premieres on January 8.
Set about a year, year and a half after the end of Season 1, Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) has spent the intervening time since her true love Sue Gilbert (Ella Hunt) married her brother Austin (Adrian Enscoe) writing hundreds, if not thousands of poems, all delivered to Sue’s door. This, as you might expect, is a little too much for Sue. While Emily has been holed up in her room, face and fingers stained with ink, Sue has become the talk of the town. She’s been hosting salons in her new home, called The Evergreens, and welcoming the intellectual glitterati. In essence, she’d become the 1850s equivalent of a social influencer.
Enter Samuel Bowles (a charming Finn Jones, showing how badly he was misused on Iron Fist), the publisher and editor of the Springfield Republican, whose daily newspaper regularly covers Sue’s salons. Thanks to Sue, Sam becomes interested in Emily’s poems, and from there we get an intricate, nuanced look at fame through the eyes of a poet who, in life, only published a handful of poems.
