Apple TV’s wildly updated series based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson is an astonishing mash-up of ultra-modern and 19th-century life in Amherst, Massachusetts. The young poet Emily, played by Hailee Steinfeld, is unfettered in her attitudes about men, women, sex and gender roles. She throws off tradition to follow her many passions, to write poetry and be at one with who she is. Her father Edward played byToby Huss begins to come around to her wild ways, her dashing publisher Samuel Bowles, played by Finn Jones has feelings and man about town Henry, played by Pico Alexander has Emily’s sister in his sights. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with the men in Emily’s life.