- Dickinson
Emily Dickinson: celebrated
American poet and sexually fluid
iconoclast with a vocabulary
borrowed from Clueless? That’s
how Dickinson imagines the
death-obsessed writer. And for
star Hailee Steinfeld, it’s in per-
fect step with Emily’s essence.
“She didn’t belong in that time.
She had a very modern way of
thinking and acting,” she says.
Adds creator Alena Smith: “This
show is up to something a bit
bigger than just being a Dickin-
son biopic. It’s using the 1850s
as a distorted lens for our world
today. Young people today feel a
sense of doom, similar to what
someone in the oncoming of
the Civil War might have felt.”
Turns out existential dread
never goes out of style. (Nov. 1)
—MAUREEN LEE LENKER- Truth Be Told
“It’s a crime drama centered
on the ripple effect in families
when they’re touched by
crime,” creator Nichelle
Tramble Spellman says of Truth
Be Told, which is inspired by
Kathleen Barber’s novel Are
You Sleeping and stars Octavia
Spencer, Lizzy Caplan, and
Aaron Paul. The drama follows
a journalist (Spencer) revisiting
a decades-old murder, and the
wounds that are reopened for
all involved. “My character has
to examine if she helped put
an innocent boy in prison,”
says Spencer. “We’re exploring
the consequences when
the pursuit of justice is on a
public stage.” (December TBA)
—PATRICK GOMEZ- Servant
When Tony Basgallop pitched
M. Night Shyamalan this
psychological thriller about
parents (Lauren Ambrose and
Toby Kebbell) who hire some
help (Nell Tiger Free), the EP
couldn’t resist. “What’s unusual
is it’s set in one location. It’s the
perfect setting for paranoia,”
says Shyamalan, who also
couldn’t resist hiring Rupert
Grint as the mysterious Julian
Pierce. “He’s a truly gifted
actor,” he says of the former
child star. “These four actors
are in this almost playlike show.
They all buzz with this...
energy.” (December TBA) —PG- For All Mankind
Imagine a world where the
Soviet Union beat the U.S. to
the moon, and the space
race continued for decades.
“We’re starting with how
history changes,” says Ronald
D. Moore, who created this
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