I Love Emily Dickinson's poetry and so I tried watching Dickinson on apple TV and its just so crap really, they turn this amazing writer into a very shallow, trope of feisty teen saying "dude" and "sick" while the women around her look on aghast and sniff their smelling salts i.e. they try to make Emily seem something by making all the other female characters nothing.
Ok so I admit I may be being unreasonable, that perhaps it isn't aimed at me but it just seems so flimsy, all style and no substance, the dialogue and so on. Sometimes mixing up time periods, using modern music and conventions can really work but other times it just seems like a lazy, formulaic way to try and appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I was looking at the new production of The Buccaneers that is going to be on Apple TV soon but that looks much the same. I suppose things like Bridgeton have influenced these things as well as Marie-Antoinette by Sophia Coppola which I enjoyed at the time but I do find myself wishing for a bit more old school BBC vibes in these productions now and again. I watched things like old productions of Middlemarch on dvd with my Mum growing up and thought they were so well done, and kept some semblance of the era.