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“Writing that shuts real life out is as good as dead.” Amanda Warren and Hailee Steinfeld in “Dickinson” season three, now streaming on Apple TV+. Betty (Amanda Warren) says as much when the Amherst crew gathers for sewing (read: gossip) circle at the Dickinson house. Instead, the focus on this season is Emily’s struggle to write beyond her personal bubble and to reflect on real life. Last season we saw her externally motivated by the validation of her editor and her desire for Sue’s attention, but those barriers are gone in this go-around. It seems like a theme of DickinsonSeason 3 is going to be “hope,” apropos for a season set in the midst of the nation’s reckoning.Īnother emerging theme, one that has transgressed seasons, is the search for Emily’s “Why.” Like any other 20-something, Emily is trying to figure out her life, especially amidst all of these major life changes.
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Inspired by Emily’s poems written around the season’s timeline, one of the themes of DickinsonSeason 2 was “fame,” and whether or not Emily needed outside validation via publication. Related Dickinson Review: I Like a Look of Agony (Season 2 Episode 9)Īustin threatening to “secede” from the family (while being a total mama’s boy, by the way) is appropriately humorous for the time period, though I hope we aren’t saddled with drunk Austin throughout season 3. While the backdrop of this season certainly seems to be New England during the Civil War, I can’t help but love how the show is mirroring the conflict within the scope of the Dickinson family. That being said, I do appreciate Dickinson‘s flair for symbolic parallels. While I empathize with him and his failing marriage, I would have thought that he would have been more excited at the prospect of fatherhood after his storyline in the past two seasons, regardless of his feelings towards his wife. It just seemed a little jarring coming straight off a rewatch of the last season’s finale.Īlso a little confusing thus far into DickinsonSeason 3 is Austin’s (Adrian Enscoe) steep decline. And yes, the end of DickinsonSeason 2 already foreshadowed the beginning of the Civil War. Yes, the fact that there is an actual historical timeline that has to be loosely followed plays some part in that decision, I’m sure. Ella Hunt and Hailee Steinfeld in season three of “Dickinson,” now streaming on Apple TV+ While it’s obvious from the first three episodes of the third season that Emily and Sue are in a much better place, both together and individually than they were in season two, it’s an odd choice to do a complete about-face from the DickinsonSeason 2 finale. Due to the nature of the IRL Emily Dickinson’s life, most notably her posthumous fame, scholars assume that she had some sort of affectionate relationship with Sue Gilbert through the timeline and the depth of feelings the pair shared is up to interpretation. This is where I think the show gets a little messy. How do we know this? Well, because Sue (Ella Hunt), who we last saw on screen professing her love for Emily, has a pregnant belly that is about to pop. Dickinson – Photograph Courtesy of Apple TV+ĭickinsonSeason 3 picks up at least nine months into the future, though we aren’t entirely sure how far. Debuting less than a year after DickinsonSeason 2 dropped - seriously how does Miss Hailee Steinfield do it? - I already prefer the direction the show is going in more than I did last season.Ī refresher: when we last saw Emily in DickinsonSeason 2 she had just pulled herself out from under the thumb of Samuel Bowles (Finn Jones), the newspaper editor that offers to publish her poems, and she had finally rekindled her friendship-turned-relationship with Sue Gilbert AKA her brother’s wife. And yet, here we are!īack for its final season, the first three episodes of DickinsonSeason 3 are a promising start to what I hope will be a satisfying season of one of television’s most inventive shows. If you had told me two years ago that one of Apple’s best shows would be about poetry and Emily Dickinson I would have thought that you were crazy.