How Zosia Mamet Became Dickinson’s Foul-Mouthed Hustler, Louisa May Alcott

Dickinson, is many things—a costume drama pushing the boundaries of the genre, a tender queer love story, a Civil War narrative with eerie parallels to our current moment—but at its core, it’s a former English major’s fever dream. Not only does the AppleTV+ series reimagine one of America’s most iconic, elusive poets with vibrancy and wit and accessibility (not to mention modern music and dialogue), but viewers never quite know when another 19th-century literary legend might show up. “I call them celebrity cameos,” showrunner Alena Smith says. “They’re celebrities in the sense of the historical figure that they’re playing is… Read Full Article