Dickinson is a half-hour sitcom on Apple TV+ that ran for three seasons. I previously reviewed it for season one and I liked it. Season two and three got even better because they doubled down on the weirdness (including an episode where Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) and her sister Lavinia (Anna Baryshnikov) time travel to the 1950's).

The show follows Emily Dickinson and her family living in Amherst, Massachusetts. Each episode uses one or two of her poems as a theme and they're read out some time during the episode (Dickinson wrote almost 2k poems but few were published in her lifetime).

The show tackles modern social issues through the faux "modern" Amherst and the last season goes more into it as it takes place a few months into the American Civil War. It's got a pretty quirky style and that's outside the times when Emily is daydreaming (more like hallucinating).

The one thing I learned is that she probably had a love affair of some kind with her lifelong friend Sue (Ella Hunt) before and after Sue marries Emily's brother Austin (Adrian Enscoe). I thought that was made up but apparently probably true based on how Sue was edited out of her collected poems when first published by Lavinia.

The whole cast is great and includes father Edward (Toby Huss) and mother Emily Norcross Dickinson (Jane Krakowski).

It's a much better show than I expected and overall worthwhile watching.