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- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
Summary The coming-of-age comedy set in the 1850s from Alena Smith about poet Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) includes modern music and takes artistic license on aspects of her life.
Created By: Alena Smith
- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
Summary The coming-of-age comedy set in the 1850s from Alena Smith about poet Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) includes modern music and takes artistic license on aspects of her life.
Created By: Alena Smith
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
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66% Positive
19 Reviews
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31% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
66
66% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
31% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Dickinson is so fun and so strange and so tireless in handing out little moments of character development, with wildly original mood setting. ... With only three episodes provided for review and all of Emily’s real, long life such a legit mystery, it’s difficult to gauge what the central arc of the whole season might be. But with such gorgeous cinematography, costuming, and metatextual design, and with every actor putting in such fun, charming, deeply specific (read: often deeply odd) performances—and with Smith and Steinfeld, especially, so blazingly self-confident in their vision—it seems entirely likely that Dickinson will be one of the brightest debuts of 2019.
There’s a wackiness and disregard for convention that will no doubt put off purists, but the “Dickinson” isn’t meant to be literal, rather its own poetic take on Emily’s life and the society that formed her. It’s bonkers, joyous, and possibly the best series on Apple TV+.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
5.9
57% Positive
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
16% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
27% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
5.9
57% Positive
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
16% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
27% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
This is really weird and fun. sometimes out of sorts and it seems that it has no plot, but it's entertaining enought for sure. Hailee Steinfeld's performance is the best thing about it.
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SEASON 1
While it’s hard to imagine this Emily is introspective enough to be any kind of poet, let alone Emily Dickinson, the show is unassuming and charming, mixing things up to convey the jarring weirdness of being ahead of one’s time. I think it would be a hit on Netflix.
The slightest, but perhaps most interesting, of the Apple Plus shows.
Dickinson has a few weak spots that threaten to rip you out of the show’s flow but are on par for a new show coming from a new streamer still finding its footing.
As far as plots go, the one in Dickinson is rather thin, which is actually fine. It makes it more of a pleasure to spend time with the characters—chiefly Steinfeld as Emily. The young actress has a commanding, sardonic-sweet screen presence, and she’s fantastic casting in this. ... But things are too mishmashed. There’s too little continuity, or rhyme or reason, for what elements are period-accurate and what gets cheekily updated to today. Things are bonkers and fun at first, then repetitive and exhausting.
"Dickinson" is a mess of conflicting tones that never jell into a show that does more than relish the chaos of twerking in long dresses. The acting is terrible, and not in a let's-drink-wine-and-make-fun-of-it way.
Emily **** is best known as the [possibly lesbian] writer obsessed with death and poetry. She is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time.
In her writing, she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints. Her characters could see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes.
To define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, **** created a distinctively elliptical language in her work, for expressing what was possible but not yet realized.
In the spirit of recent historical dramadies (p.e. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite) Apple TV+ has released this original series.
In my opinion, the American TV firmament will not rest until it remakes every American poet into a TV-series character who is hot, young, and horny. At least she is depicted as ****. Obviously the show is targeting the young generation. I for one, would prefer a British version.
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SEASON 1
My wife and I tried to give this show a chance, but its just not good. I really dislike shows where every character in the show always seem to make dumb descions over and over. Just so things can happen. Every supporting character is either stupid or unable to act nirmal.
The music was is annoying none of it fits any sceene. Just current pop music crammed into scenes.
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SEASON 1