Apple TV+’s beloved Dickinson may have ended a few short weeks ago on December 24, 2021, but that doesn’t mean fans are ready to let go of the series quite yet. And, as it turns out, neither is Apple, as the streamer has just released a surprise documentary special titled From Dickinson, With Love.
The nearly 23 minute long video, which just debuted on Apple TV+ and on YouTube (which you can watch above), was “created for the series’ fans” according to Apple, so if you weren’t a fan GET OUT OF HERE. It features new interviews with Dickinson star and executive producer Hailee Steinfeld, creator, writer and executive producer Alena Smith, and the rest of the cast and crew as they say goodbye to three seasons of historical comedy and drama.
“Since day one, it’s always been us, and this unbelievably incredible team,” Steinfeld says early in the tribute, with Smith adding that they have an “unconventionally close relationship,” which she chalks up to Steinfeld’s background in movies, and her background in theater.
Kicking off towards the end of shooting the series in March, 2021, the special travels through all three seasons as fans are taken behind-the-scenes on the Old Bethpage and Astoria based sets of the series, as well as featuring new looks at the cast and crew reminiscing about filming. That includes archival interviews with Steinfeld from way back in October, 2018, shooting the very first scene of the pilot, highlights from Season 3, all the way through the final moments of the final episode and beyond.
Dickinson ran for three seasons starting in 2019, and tells the story of a period in the life of famed American poet Emily Dickinson (Steinfeld) before she became the artist she was destined to be. As the series continued, it further widened the scope to focus on Emily’s friends and family, and perhaps most notably for fans, canonized a long theorized romance between Emily and her sister-in-law, Sue (Ella Hunt).
“To get to a point where we are making a show about two women in love,” Hunt says during a section titled “Emily & Sue,” “I feel incredibly grateful for the Emilys and Sues of history.”
The series also effortlessly floated between comedy and drama; surreal side-trips to mermaid beaches, infernos, and carriage rides with death; and biting social commentary, and broad, hilariously goofy jokes. Over the course of 30 episodes, Dickinson was unlike anything else on TV, capturing a devoted fanbase and even the attention of the Emily Dickinson Museum, which will be using props and items from the series to beef up their archives and add to renovations for their walkthrough of Emily Dickinson’s house.
Included in the documentary are interviews with cast members Adrian Blake Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, Jane Krakowski, Chinaza Uche, Wiz Khalifa, Samuel Farnsworth, Sophie Zucker, Darlene Hunt, Ziwe, Nore Davis, Myles Evans, Wavyy Jonez as well as crew members Jennifer Moeller and Silas Howard.
Watch the full special above, and say goodbye to Dickinson, again… Forevermore.
