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[shegos]

DICKINSON (2019-2021) 3.09 | Grief is a Mouse

[ohthewondersoflife]

Crush (2022)

THE queer romcom we needed.

[wlwsource]

DICKINSON (2019-2021) 3.09 | Grief is a Mouse

[alicent-florent]

EMISUE + kisses

bonus:

[dearafah]

[spiderliliez]

Hailee Steinfeld (as Emily Dickinson) Ella Hunt (as Sue Gilbert) Adrian Enscoe (as Austin Dickinson) EMILY IN HER DARK PLACE, CONFRONTED BY AUSTIN. From the biopic-comedy series, DICKINSON (2021) [+] SUE & EMILY ❤ [+] ..more on episode eight

[huntfeld]

i was shocked this whole scene. Emisue supremacy 🛐🛐🛐

[tvshowfreak]

“The only time I feel things is when I’m with you.”

[i-lovewomen-deactivated20230731]

Well.. I died🔥

[spiderliliez]

Hailee Steinfeld (as Emily Dickinson) Ella Hunt (as Sue Gilbert) “THERE WAS NEVER ANY HOPE FOR US, WAS THERE?”  From the biopic-comedy series, DICKINSON (2021) [+] SUE & EMILY ❤ [+] ..more on episode eight

And as what Nobody have said… “The darkest place of all.” 

[alexzalben]

I’m so disappointed, Alex. Dickinson is one of my favorite tv series, but I think it lost its way. Cmon, we’re talking about a show that gave us the most Epic kiss right in the 1x01. But now.. only 2 episodes left of season 3 and Emily and Sue are still apart. Frankly I cannot recognize emily at all. She only talks and denies kisses!!!!! Will we have a proper kiss / sex scene? I’m so sad!! 😢

I totally understand the EmiSue fans are going through it right now, but I do think it's important to understand that's not all the show is trying to tackle, or all it has on its mind. The main themes of this season (or at least, some of them) are the Civil War, and the concept of hope. That's why the episode didn't end with Emily and Sue - it ended with Emily seeing Henry triumph, and understanding that not all hope is lost. Even though she's at a low point with every member of her family, it's still possible to end the Dickinsons' own civil war, it's possible to help them all achieve their dreams (or at least some bit of happiness), and it is possible to repair things with Sue. Anyway, that's my take on the episode.

[haroldimahomo]

Look I love EmiSue like that's all I think about all day every day, EmiSue are the reason why I'm having a biological child with my wife (thanks Sue)

But Dickinson isn't just about them - it's so much more than that. The commentary on privilege, queerness, sexism and racism is so well done.

The look of utter disbelief on Emily's face when Edward just casually said "you women" - she really saw her father for who he is. A fake. A fraud, a fence sitter, a spineless centrist.

Like the scene between Betty and Emily?

Betty called Emily out for being a whiny rich girl writing about "hope" and crying about her family when the world around them is literally out to kill "people in Betty's shoes".

Don't even get me started on the deliberate choice of Edward dropping dead and Sue entering the room dressed masculine

Emily, despite being unconventional, can't place Sue in her life. She wants to be with Sue, but she just doesn't know how or where. Sue is a woman, she can't be what Emily needs her to be so they can be together.

It was almost like Emily's inner demons saying - so if Sue was a man - she'd take care of you like a man would. Women need men to live...right?

Then Sue arrives, saying they're safe in HELL because guess what gays we ARE safe in hell

Her exchange with Sue holds obvious meanings - I feel like I'm overthinking this.

Emily's internal homophobia (lol) is stopping her from being physically intimate with Sue - like this is the most physical Emily has been with Sue even in her own head - is it a coincidence that it's because Sue is dressed as a man? i THINK NOT

The sexy/awkward dance scene needs its own analysis BUT it was a weird mix of modernism/traditionalism - which seems like a nod to ED's reputation as a "precursor modernist" poet.

I was in awe of today's episode.

[alexzalben]

Alex I don’t understand how Emily’s biggest turn on is Sue dressed as a man I thought we already seen she’s queer

My interpretation: it's a throwback to episode 2 ("I Have Never Seen Volcanos") when they played around and dressed like men. At the time, that's the only way Emily thought they could be together publicly. Now, she's not sure, and that idea scares her. That's why she rejects Inferno Sue and turns away... She wants her, she loves her, but this mish-mash of old and new Sue, she doesn't know what to think. Remember: it's the 1860s and she just learned the word "lesbian" last episode.

[alexzalben]

I really can’t understand how both Emily and Sam (2x05) and Sue and Sam (2x08) were more graphic / hot than emisue scenes.

It’s like they don’t even want to touch / kiss each other.

Well, if I’m being honest this 3rd season is amazing except for the ABSENCE of emisue kisses. I miss S1 Emily. Now they only fight / declare their love without ever acting. They look like friends. Not lovers.

I would really appreciate if you shared your views on these thoughts. Thanks

I think I've mentioned this before (maybe I haven't), but one of the most important lessons I learned in theater class was that when the main characters kiss, the show is over. It's trickier with a TV series because the characters have already kissed, but part of building the drama and the tension is coming close to that kiss and then pulling back. I know it's frustrating for everyone, but it is purposefully frustrating. You're supposed to be emotionally feeling what Inferno Sue is feeling in that moment.

Also: COVID.

[softavasilva]

DICKINSON | 3.08  My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun

[eleganttiredcroissant]

For me, the main conflict between Emily and Sue this third season hinges on two pivotal moments for Emily in particular.

First, the epiphany she has when George says: "All I know is this: if I had to choose between you and your poems I'd choose your poems." in episode 3; and secondly the discussion with Sue in episode 7:

Emily: "[...]or worse, when you say you love a line, well maybe all that really means is that you love me"

Sue: "I do love you, Emily, and what is wrong with that?"

Sue wants to be with Emily-the-person and her absence can't be replaced by her words which in turn hurts Emily-the-poet. Sue loves Emily as a whole which includes "the mess". When Sue says "you once told me you wrote for me and for me alone" what she chooses to focus on is the fact that she's the most important person in Emily's life, rather than being the center of Emily's poetic inspiration (in fact, that's the reason she's hurt by the fact that Emily sent her poems to someone else). It's a subtle difference but it's definitely there for Emily during that fight. She wants to separate her work from her relationship with Sue and as much as she was pleased to hear George saying he'd choose her poems over her, she is as much disappointed to see that Sue's feelings get in the way of her opinions on Emily's poems.

Emily is keeping the two selves separate and, after that, she goes on to say to Sylvia Plath: "why are we talking about her private life? Shouldn't we be focusing on her poems?" to which she replies “Do you really think you can pull the two apart?" which is the first step of her change of perspective. The second step comes from Lavinia when she makes her understand that she had already everything she wanted in the present.

Personally, I find it heartbreaking when she says: "I guess sometimes I just find it easier to be in love when I'm writing a poem than when I'm actually, you know, not." It's everything that's been going on this season in one single sentence. She realizes she hasn't been able to make her poems and the feelings behind them coexist completely and indipendently from each other. Poetry is her native language and she doesn't feel like she's been capable of translating it efficiently into reality, a messy second language.

Or, as Lavinia puts it: "Real love doesn't exist in your imagination, it exists right here, in this abjectly horrible place we call reality".

[alexzalben]

I'm really struggling to understand why reviewers were praising Sue's character so highly in this season. No hate to Ella, she's been fantastic, but Sue has been borderline intolerable this season. It's painting Austin to be the train wreck of the family and the "villain", and glazes over how awful Sue is to him. I actually gasped when she asked Emily if they could be together if Austin died in the war. WTF, Sue?! That's still her BROTHER?!

Here's what I love about Sue's character this season: she's finally saying what she wants. She's been so internal the past two seasons, for good reason, and this season she's sometimes saying the wrong thing, or feeling the "wrong" thing; but this is the first time she's expressing any of those feelings. I think the key line this season is "I want the mess." Because sometimes love is messy, and relationships are messy. And the best ones? They're not perfect. It's the flaws that elevate them, and how you deal with those flaws. That's what we're seeing here, particularly Emily grappling with this ideal of Sue she had when they had to be together in hiding. Now that there are ways for them to actually be together for real, does she want her imagined version fo Sue? Or the real Sue? And the decision she reached at the end of this week's episode is the latter... All she wants is Sue, no matter what. Flaws and all. I think that's pretty beautiful.