Should you watch Dickinson?
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Dickinson
Series · 2019
Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world's greatest poet.
The sides of Dickinson
- A young Emily Dickinson who wants to be a poet
- A strict father in 1850s Amherst
- Modern music and slang in a period setting
Dickinson is good for you if…
- you like a young woman fighting her family to write.
- you like a period piece that talks like today.
- you like 19th-century New England seen through a rebel's eyes.
Dickinson is bad for you if…
- you can't stand surreal scenes like Death driving a ghostly carriage.
- you need action, not poems and parlour quarrels.
About: creativity · freedom · first love
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