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Season 3 – Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson, poet, daughter, and total rebel; in this coming-of-age story, Emily is determined to become the world's greatest poet.
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Dickinson — Season 3

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Authentically itself to the very last, Dickinson's final season delivers elegant closure like a well-structured stanza.

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Shirley Li The Atlantic 12/27/2021
In probing this riddle, Dickinson pushed the boundaries of anachronistic storytelling-and became one of the most audacious series on TV. Go to Full Review
Melanie McFarland Salon.com 12/20/2021
Whenever Dickinson takes grand license with its heroine's history my appreciation for this show is renewed. It's one of those sparkling gems that's likely to be appreciated more broadly in its afterlife, especially as Steinfeld's stardom grows. Go to Full Review
Jessica Goldstein New York Magazine/Vulture 11/16/2021
3/5
Our series, via Em's voice-over, wants to assert that Dickinson has been sidelined from the canon of war poets for all the reasons you might expect: (1) not being a soldier, (2) being a shut-in, and (3) being a woman. Go to Full Review
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire Magazine 10/12/2022
After three seasons, the show ends where we always knew it would. Somehow, it's the perfect send-off. Go to Full Review
Alberto Carlos Espinof 11/16/2021
Dickinson reaches brilliant and mature heights in its exploration of a unique voice. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Tiffany Kelly The Daily Dot 11/16/2021
With the Civil War as its backdrop, and parallels to our current mid-pandemic world, the end of this incredibly nuanced and well-written show is superb. I will miss it a lot. Go to Full Review
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Donn A @RT58687407 Aug 31 brilliant cast with a stellar lead. fabulous costumes and poetic script. See more Alex 1 @RT87667310 12/10/2024 All the scenes they did in this series are good but the only detail missing is the lack of complete nudity in the characters in episode 9 of season 3.. why didn't they create a scene where the characters show themselves completely naked in episode 9 of the third season? the characters who were played by Hailee and Ella are supposed to show their bodies completely naked in that episode just like in the scenes from the episodes of the seson2... as happens in James Cameron's Titanic and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water films, those movies are the ones that showed the characters completely naked in each scene... why don't they do the same in the Dickinson series?... I wish they should do two shots.. what they should have done before filming the episodes is this: 1- make it the scene completely where they show the characters in each scene of an episode of season 2 and 3... and especially episode 9 of the third season... 2- cut the scenes where they show the characters naked so that the episodes are published on the apple tv + platform and thus so that people do not see the naked characters 3- convert the complete scenes where they show the characters completely naked on some website away from the public. See more Robert B @RT72387186 10/16/2023 Way too much time spent on the affair between Emily and Susan! The characters were inconsistent. Emily was presented as an intelligent and committed woman for feminism yet she lived in her father's house and kept to her room. Just not a person to devote a show to. See more Ahmad M @ahmadmelhem 09/13/2023 Questionable, but fairly gives due to the great American poet. See more John O @ThreeRivers 02/03/2023 Spoilers: It seems Emily Dickinson's radical creativity, independence, iconoclasm, and the political, cultural, religious and economic awareness she showed in a patriarchal society where women were legally possessed by men was well represented. So if the muse and the mind and the imagination go anywhere, unfettered, it was not that big a stretch, and was refreshing, to see the sensibility, vocabulary and music of the millenials of the now side by side with a 19th-century sensibility of the parental generation, her lawyer Dad waxing eloquent in print on the proper role of woman, one of inequality and only repression and the constant drudgery of housework. Emily had to fight to do her writing, alone in her room, often late at night, as her batty Mom and stodgy Dad kept pushing her toward expectations for women of marriage and housework. Fight she did, surrender she didn't, writing was like breathing for her, she had to do it, needed it, but loved family enough to do it right in their faces, wrote at home. Her creative process, I have to write now as it is coming now, is familiar to those of us who similarly have to write, even if not as well as Emily. Emily's love of her life, Sue, showed her ability to chuck the prevailing mores and morals of her society. The affluence of her close family was just a fact, but facilitated her freedom to write. But the good humor of this, the flights of fancy, the inclusion of even Mom and Dad in the lightheartedness was often very funny. Hailee, also EP, was magnetic to the extent that the scenes she was not in made us long to get her back. So talented, so funny even in quips, facial expressions and body movements, Emily so determined to be herself even if being a writer as a job was out of the question. The writing of these majestic poems on little pieces of paper, presumably because paper was hard to get, didn't even phase her. Her sister Vinny, Anna Baryshnikov, stole many scenes as the comedy relief of a pretty clueless woman more possessed by the idea of love than the men she loved and lost. Jane as Mom had fun with this, showing great range of a shoolmarmish mother to an irrational woman to a frustrated woman willing to try pot. Toby as Dad was good, as were Ella as Sue and Adrian as Austin. I pretty much binged all three seasons over about a week. This pulled me along with: What are they going to do next? Emily is Exhibit A in the American ideas of I gotta be me, and talent and skill will somehow win out if the person works at it enough. And she was a top talent ever produced here. Kudos to producers, directors, writers, actors, etc. This was some unusual and risky ride, but it paid off. See more 07/09/2022 It is one of the greatest seasons I've ever watched. This season is a masterpiece. See more Read all reviews
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Episode 1 Aired Nov 5, 2021 "Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers Amid the Civil War's mounting casualties, the Dickinsons grieve one of their own; Emily struggles to keep the peace in her family. Details Episode 2 Aired Nov 5, 2021 It Feels a Shame to Be Alive Frazar Stearns leaves to meet his fate on the battlefield just as the Dickinson family welcomes a new life. Details Episode 3 Aired Nov 5, 2021 The Soul Has Bandaged Moments Determined to heal the nation, Emily and Lavinia host a sewing circle to support the troops with help from Amherst's finest seamstress, Betty. Details Episode 4 Aired Nov 12, 2021 This Is My Letter to the World Emily tries to connect with the pain of war by writing to a Union Army colonel and visiting a war hospital; Henry takes a new job teaching soldiers. Details Episode 5 Aired Nov 19, 2021 Sang From the Heart, Sire Emily tries to celebrate her father's birthday with an old-fashioned sing-along, but it devolves into another battle in the Dickinsons' own civil war. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 25, 2021 A Little Madness in the Spring The Dickinsons take a fun family outing to an asylum; Henry helps the soldiers with a uniform inspection. Details Episode 7 Aired Dec 3, 2021 The Future Never Spoke After a clash with Sue, Emily wishes she could escape from this troubled time altogether; Austin struggles with a man's responsibility in wartime. Details Episode 8 Aired Dec 10, 2021 My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun On the day of the soldier's memorial, Emily's efforts to keep her family's hope alive reach a breaking point, and she descends into a personal inferno. Details Episode 9 Aired Dec 17, 2021 Grief Is a Mouse Emily takes steps to ensure that her family won't repeat their past mistakes; the Amherst gang gathers for a fond farewell. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 24, 2021 This Was a Poet Emily asks Betty to help her design a new dress; the Dickinson family is surprised by an unexpected guest. Details
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Season Info

Creator
Alena Smith
Executive Producer
Alena Smith, Michael Sugar, Ashley Zalta, Paul Lee, Josh Stern, Alex Goldstone, Hailee Steinfeld, Darlene Hunt, David Gordon Green
Network
Apple TV
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance, History
Original Language
English
Release Date
Nov 5, 2021