What is Dickinson about?
Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world's greatest poet.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
A determined young poet navigates society's constraints with a surreal, witty, and earnest sensibility.
Intimate, with dry wit. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Apple TV+.
Dickinson parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, which is more than most TV-14 titles carry. Beyond that, some strong language and no real violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byAlena Smith
StarringHailee Steinfeld, Toby Huss, Adrian Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, Ella Hunt, Amanda Warren
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