The First Full-Length Trailer for 'Dickinson' Season 2 Is Finally Here
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Light your candles and ready your nightgowns: Dickinson is coming back. The anachronistic period piece, which stars Hailee Steinfeld as a very teenaged Emily Dickinson, is nearing its second season. Here's what we know so far about what's to come.
The first full-length trailer has dropped.
It seems that Emily will wrestle with whether to pursue fame this season, and Sue has become... an influencer? Watch the tantalizing teaser in full above.
The showrunner has hinted at what's in store.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Alena Smith explained that the show will continue to explore why Dickinson's poems were only published posthumously. "Season one gives one answer, which is it was a patriarchy and her father was opposed to women publishing. Season two 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," she said. "Season two 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 about fame even if she was subverting it."
It seems that the events of the era will also figure into the plot. "We get a bit closer to the Civil War [in season two]. We get right up to the brink of it," Smith explained. "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."
Steinfeld once again leads the cast.
The actress, who plays the show's titular poet, is joined by returning cast members Jane Krakowski, Anna Baryshnikov, Ella Hunt, Toby Huss, and Adrian Blake Enscoe. Wiz Khalifa will also return as Death.
Some new guest stars are joining the show.
Nick Kroll is playing Edgar Allan Poe; Timothy Simons is playing Frederick Law Olmstead; Ayo Edebiri is playing Hattie; and Will Pullen is playing Nobody.
It's set to premiere this winter.
Apple has slated Dickinson's second season to bow on January 8, 2021. The first three episodes will be available at launch; subsequent episodes will debut on Fridays after that.
The story won't end with this upcoming season.
In early October, months ahead of Dickinson's season two debut, Apple ordered a third run—so feel free to get attached, this show isn't going anywhere.
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