Review
‘Dickinson’ on Apple TV+ is phenomenal
Every writer should watch this
Background
‘Dickinson’ on Apple TV+ was one of the first TV series launched by Apple alongside the Morning Show. It is a biographical comedy-drama series about Emily Dickinson. It stars Hailee Steinfeld as the protagonist and is created by Alena Smith. Dickinson won the Peabody Award in the Entertainment category and also has been renewed for two more seasons.
My take
Most of us have heard the name ‘Emily Dickinson’ as one of the most important figures in American Poetry but I for one didn’t know much about her. The show basically takes you to the 19th century and discusses the problem of the rigid gender roles pre-existing in the society which have no solid foundation. Although Dickinson was born in a prominent family, she was entitled and privileged, it talks about the struggles she had to face since a woman becoming a writer or a poet wasn’t accepted by the society it was unbecoming of a woman to take up jobs like these.
The series has personified death with Wiz Khalifa starring as death. So, I actually love writing and have penned down a few poems too and I loved this series. Although it does gets a bit monotonous in the starting few episodes but it picks up the pace as we go with it. Each episode is based on a poem written by Emily Dickinson and her process about how she writes it.
At one point in the series, Dickinson goes to meet Henry Thoreau and as they go about having a conversation she says:
Whereas everything I write I have to keep to myself. Try writing something and not showing it anyone, then you’ll know what real loneliness feels like.
And this hit me so very hard, I mean I could relate it and feel that pain. So I had never read any of the poems written by her, but as I was watching this, I got really intrigued and read some of her work and the depth to each word of each line of her poems is unprecedented and I am still calming myself. The very character of Emily Dickinson is very inspiring, her relationship with her father and her encounters with death in her head all of it is very well portrayed. There’s a lot that is worth discussing and talking about, but I want to keep this rather concise.
Final Verdict
If you are particularly fond of writing, then you should definitely watch this. I assure you you’ll love it.
But if you’re not then you can choose to skip this one, it particularly won’t intrigue you as much but then again it’s good so if possible so watch it!
Start with the trailer here:
Thank you for reading this and please put in responses what did you feel about Dickinson.
