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Title: ‘Dickinson’ review: A comedy for the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels Post by: HCK on November 06, 2019, 04:05:13 pm ‘Dickinson’ review: A comedy for the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels
<article> <section class="page"> <p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson" rel="nofollow">Emily Dickinson[/url] hardly seems like the ideal subject of a launch-day Apple TV+ comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld in the title role. Dickinson, after all, is probably poetry’s most famous recluse—a woman who spent many of her 55 years sequestered in her bedroom while scribbling chipper lines like, “<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45703/i-heard-a-fly-buzz-when-i-died-591" rel="nofollow">I heard a fly buzz when I died[/url].” If Apple had gone the Masterpiece Theatre route with Dickinson, all interest would have died, too.</p><p>Apple, though, wisely has the courage to think different. Consider one of Dickinson’s first scenes, in which Emily’s brother Austin (Adrian Enscoe) trots up on a horse.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3451521/dickinson-review.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: ‘Dickinson’ review: A comedy for the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels (https://www.macworld.com/article/3451521/dickinson-review.html#tk.rss_all) |