Rebel Em is a gem

Published date04 January 2021
Date04 January 2021
Publication titleDaily Star (England)
Especially when it needs to keep that up over a number of episodes.

But season one of the Apple+ darkly comic Dickinson, where Hailee Steinfeld plays 19th century US poet Emily Dickinson in her rebellious early years, managed to make it look a bit of a breeze.

That was largely thanks to sparky writing (intentionally sounding about as 19th century as Glee), lovely strait-laced performances and a punchy modern soundtrack.

That, plus how smoothly it could switch the mood when it needed to.

Season two (the first three parts of which arrive on Friday, followed by one every week after that) finds our previously private heroine - very much a woman ahead of her time -

being urged to share her writing with the...

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