All The Deets We Know About The Second Season Of Apple Tv’s “Dickinson”
The historical comedy-drama web television series “Dickinson”, created by Alena Smith and produced for Apple Tv+ 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.”
Starring Hailee Steinfeld as Dickinson, the first season was released on November 1, 2019, when Apple Tv debuted. After gaining positive reviews from audiences, Fans are pondering about when the second season will air. In October 2019, Apple TV+ ordered to make a season two. Here’s everything we know so far.
First And Foremost, When Is It Coming Out?
Apple Tv released a date announcement teaser on youtube in October saying that the series will hit the streaming service on January 8, 2021.
Deadline reports that season 2 of the series was currently in production in New York. Back in October 2019, before AppleTV+ had even launched, The Hollywood Reporter noted in a profile of the streaming service that Dickinson had been renewed for season two alongside originals including The Morning Show, See, and For All Mankind.
Sources say production for the series finished back in July 2020.
On November 7, Steinfeld confirmed the news of the renewal, tweeting, “#DICKINSON Season 2 is underway…and has been for months 😉 x.”
Who’s in the cast?
Two new faces will be joining the cast in the second season. Finn Jones ( Game of Thrones, Iron Fist) will play Samuel Bowles, “an energetic and magnetic newspaper editor.” Meanwhile, Pico Alexander ( Catch-22, Home Again) will star as Henry “Ship” Shipley, an Amherst College dropout who rents a room at the Dickinsons’.
What Will Second Season Of Dickinson anchor On?
After a first season that re-imagined Dickinson’s artistic ascension, creator Alena Smith revealed season 2 will explore the writer’s position on fame. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she discussed how the series would dissect why much of the late poet’s work was written in secret and not published until after her death. “Season 1 gives one answer, which is it was patriarchy and her father was opposed to women publishing. 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 with fame even if she was subverting it.”
The showrunner also tweeted a tease of what’s to come, writing, “ Dickinson really is as much a dramatic adaptation of her poetry as it is a historical depiction of her biography. This will become even more clear in season two.”
Smith told THR that season two doesn’t take the show into the Civil War, a time period she’s hoping to explore. “ We get a bit closer to the Civil War [in season two]. We get right up to the brink of it,” she said. “The season kind of builds up to the event of Harpers Ferry, of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, which we are kind of figuring in our show as kind of a 9/11 moment or a moment when war becomes inevitable and the society that has held itself together so far knows that it’s not going to work anymore. If and when we have a season three, that would be when we were in a Civil War.”
During her episode of Collider Connected, Steinfeld explained:
“Yes. Yes. Absolutely. I think in Season 1 we have seen sort of glimpses of what we’ll definitely see a lot more of in Season 2 … We have to imagine that at some point in Emily’s life, she sat at that desk, right? And only wrote these poems for who she wanted to see them. But there had to have been moments where she wanted the world — we know that — she wanted the world to see her work and hear and read, and appreciate her work and her worth. She says at the end of Season 1, ‘I am a poet and this is what I’m gonna do whether you like it or not,’ and she takes that to another level [in] Season 2.”
Show creator, Alena Smith said that the second season will take more of a look at why Emily doesn’t publish her poems before she dies. Of course, we see that her father was very much against it, giving viewers one reason for her not publishing. However, it’s also her “deeply ambivalent relationship to fame,” which can be seen in the “many” poems Dickinson wrote about “running from fame or rejecting fame,” According to Cheatsheet.
Whatever the second season leans on, we’re sure that it’s gonna even more thrilling and exhilarating than the previous one. Are you looking forward to Dickinson? Let us know in the comments below.
Originally published at site:theweeklydiversion.com on August 18, 2020.
