As the Apple TV+ series wraps up, showrunner Alena Smith explains how she arrived at the show's ending while its star weighs in on whether her character ultimately believes poetry can provide hope and on Emily's strained relationship with her father.
, we are drawing from specific lines of poetry,” Smith tells. “I was sort of haunted by that line ‘The mermaids in the basement / Came out to look at me,’ and I see the mermaids as a symbol of female creativity and also as a symbol of something that can never quite be reached but is always calling to you. Similarly the act of rowing, that is something that you hear in different poems of Emily’s.
Smith adds that had she wanted to keep writing her portrayal of Dickinson and produce additional seasons, she feels confident that Apple would have let her do that, but she felt like by the end of season three, this particular story was done. “For me, the Civil War is the moment when Emily steps into her full power as an artist, and I feel like once you get her there, you’re kind of done with the project that this show wanted to do,” Smith explains. “There’s definitely a lot more material to be mined in Emily Dickinson’s life, but this show was always meant to tell her coming of age, so I felt like we got there.
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