The 'Dickinson' Season 2 Trailer Wrestles with Issues of Fame and Legacy

Dickinson is the little AppleTV+ series that could, a thoughtful, anachronistic, and totally fun comedy-drama that far too few people have seen

Actress Hailee Steinfeld stars as a young version of the famous poet Emily Dickinson and the story is a wild reimagining of the life of a woman we too often remember as a sad recluse into a woman who was truly ahead of her time. The show features everything from modern slang to hip hop music to drugs and extended dance breaks and Wiz Khalifa as the personification of death. As a series, it is truly original and gives us a version of the famous poet that deliberately clashes with the way she is normally depicted in popular culture.

The series is set to return for its second season in January, and Apple TV has dropped the first trailer for its return. The clip features the same sort of dark and irreverent tone that characterized Dickinson's first season and promises more of the same in Season 2.

Season 1 concluded with Sue's wedding to Emily's brother Austin, an event that prompted the young poet to throw herself more fully into her craft and lead her to declare that she would compose "the greatest poems ever written". The Season 2 trailer hints that things might not be completely over between the two women, but also that Emily herself may not be ready for the fame she has always claimed to want.

Tired of being the only one who reads her work, Sue introduces Emily to Sam Bowles (Finn Jones, Iron Fist), a newspaper editor and possible love interest who seems keen to publish her work. Despite the fact that she often references her desire to be recognized for her genius, when presented with the opportunity for recognition, she balks.