Starring Hailee Steinfeld as Emily, Dickinson is an American comedy streaming series created by Alena Smith, the first season was released on November 1, 2019, when Apple TV+ debuted.
Dickinson takes place “during Emily Dickinson’s era with a modern sensibility and tone. It takes viewers into the world of Emily, audaciously exploring the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of a budding writer who doesn’t fit into her own time through her imaginative point of view. Dickinson is Emily’s coming-of-age story – one woman’s fight to get her voice heard.”
The Second Season was released on Friday, January 8, 2021, on Apple TV+.
Season 2 is going to completely turn that on its head or inside out and give a very different answer, which is that Emily herself had a deeply ambivalent relationship to fame.
Smith explained. “Season 2 is really all about fame and the attention economy, which was a central concern in Emily Dickinson’s poems. She wrote many, many poems about fame and about running from fame or rejecting fame. But she definitely had an obsession about fame even if she was subverting it.”
According to Apple TV+, the plot of Season 2 reads “Emily Dickinson is pulled out of her private literary life and thrust into the public eye while struggling with the sense that the pursuit of fame might be a dangerous game for her to play.” The first teaser for the new season illustrates this, with Emily and her sister Lavinia (Anna Baryshnikov) conducting a seance with their friends in which Emily asks, “Oh great spirits, should I seek fame?” A lightning bolt and extinguished candles suggest the answer is no. New character Hattie, played by Ayo Edebiri, adds, “I wanna make spooky shit happen and get paid.” Returning characters Abby (Sophie Zucker), Jane (Gus Birney), and Toshiaki (Kevin Yee) also make appearances.
Where can I stream “Dickinson”?
The only viable way to watch ‘Dickinson‘ is to subscribe to Apple TV+, Netflix, and Disney+.