Beanbagels

First, the good. The acting was top notch, especially from Jenna Coleman, who was phenomenal! (I'm not just saying that because she is from my home town) The story was good, with some clever twists, and the scenery was lovely.

Now the bad. The directing. This let the whole production down. As others have mentioned, the pacing was very slow and the whole thing could have been shorter. What really annoyed the hell out of me though was the constant jumping backwards and forwards in time. We were getting flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks! This made everything very confusing and ruined the whole flow of the show. I would have rated this as an 8 if not for this.

First, the good point. Cynthia Nixon was excellent, and her death scene was very harrowing.

However, this was so dull and dreary and full of inaccuracies. To me, the biggest let down was that Sue, the one true love of Emily's life, to whom she had written hundreds of letters and poems, was on screen for about 5 minutes in total. There was no indication that they were even close friends, let alone lovers!

There was no mention of Higginson, with whom she had corresponded frequently, and who was instrumental in publishing her poems. She never met Mabel Todd, and Samuel Bowles had been a family acquaintance for several years longer than suggested here.

Her mother's illness and death was also rushed, in that she had a stroke in one scene, and died in the next, when in fact there were 7 years between the two events.

My final gripe is that she was shown in a regular wooden coffin, when in fact she was buried in a white coffin.

Very disappointing to this Dickinson fan.