Tell Me I’m Sorry

Tell Me I’m Sorry
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Tell Me I’m Sorry

Join writers/friends Maggie (a Millennial) and Marin (a Gen Z-er) as they muse on depictions of girlhood in film, literature, and other media. Tell Me I’m Sorry is a celebration of pop culture, the audacity of youth, and the ways we grow away from and into our bodies and dreams for ourselves and each other. New episodes every other Tuesday.

  1. DEC 7

    Introducing... the Tell Me I'm Sorry Book Club

    We’ve got a short and special episode this week to announce the very exciting news that we are launching a book club! We get into the goals of the club, how you can join, and why we’re excited to discuss our first book, Democracy in Retrograde by Sami Sage and Emily Amick.  To sign up for the first meeting, go to the Linktree in our Instagram bio (@tellmeimsorry) or copy this link to your browser: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/6062997/join/e74d1c

    17 min

  2. NOV 26

    15. The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

    Hallelujah, folks. We’ve got a movie brimming with whimsy and goofiness that offers a tender vision of girlhood, first love, and queerness: Maria Meggenti’s THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE (1995). Maggie takes us on some major philosophical quandaries—Why is it difficult to analyze joy? What if you don’t need to love yourself before you love someone else?—and Marin puts her English degree to good use with an exuberant read on the film’s title. Apologies for the delay in posting this episode. We recorded it at the end of October but a variety of factors (the U.S. presidential election, general exhaustion, etc.) collided shortly after and we’ve taken a break this month. We’ll be back recording in December and have some very special projects and episodes on the horizon! Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Secondary texts referenced: National Anthem (2023) dir. Luke Gilford  “The Body Electric” by Hurray for the Riff Raff  “Review: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love” by Roger Ebert Beautiful World, Where are You? by Sally Rooney

    1h 41m

  3. OCT 29

    14. The Slumber Party Massacre

    This week we’re talking about the definitive slasher of Maggie’s girlhood, Amy Holden Jones’s THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982)—a movie which offers just about everything you could want in a horror classic: inventive gore, insightful commentary on female sexuality and objectification, goofy phallic symbols, queer longing, and girls eating pizza over a corpse. Happy Halloween! Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Secondary texts referenced: Slumber Party Massacre (2021) dir. Danishka Esterhazy

    1h 24m

  4. OCT 8

    13. Scream

    We’re prepping for Halloween by subjecting ourselves to the most stomach-churning sight of the 90s: Skeet Ulrich’s greasy hair tendrils. Marin’s pick this week is SCREAM (1996), the first horror movie that actually scared her. And while Skeet’s hair IS an abomination, this film has plenty of other horrors for us to dissect: teenage misogynists, extreme fandom, and weaponized self-awareness. We also praise Drew Barrymore (naturally) and discuss how her one scene really is as affecting—in both its terror and its sadness—as everyone remembers.  Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Secondary texts referenced: “The fandom menace: People, get a life!” by Roger Ebert  Ghosts of You by Cathy Ulrich

    1h 27m

  5. SEP 24

    12. The Virgin Suicides

    It’s the movie that launched Sofia Coppola’s directing career and awakened Young Maggie to the beauty of Kirsten Dunst’s armpits: the dreamy, detailed, and devastating THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999). We wrestle with the male narration, Marin details falling out of love with the novel upon which the film is based (and appreciating the film more as a result), and we talk about the knottiest of conundrums: how to protect adolescent girls from the world without totally depriving them of it.   Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Secondary texts referenced: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen “No” by Anne Boyer (from A Handbook of Disappointed Fate) “Our Sisters Shall Inherit the Sky” by Alana Massey (from All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers)

    1h 39m

  6. SEP 10

    11. Cruel Intentions

    We’re investigating a supremely entertaining work of garbage this week and, honestly, thank goodness—we needed some laughter around here. CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999) has it all: one of the most despicable romantic heroes in teen film history, ~tension~ between step siblings, a perfect Sarah Michelle Gellar performance, and a Counting Crows needle drop that offends Maggie but reverts Marin into a sentimental tween. We rant, we cackle, we reflect, we put this movie in conversation with some of the most influential art ever made (because this is our show and we do what we want). Enjoy!     Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Marin’s Letterboxd: @marinharrington  Secondary texts referenced: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) dir. Madeleine Perry and John Olb “Introduction to Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Alfred Mac Adam (Barnes & Noble Classics edition)  “Pure Heroines” by Jia Tolentino (from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion)

    1h 42m

  7. AUG 27

    10. Miller's Girl

    MILLER’S GIRL (2024) was panned by critics and didn’t recoup even a fourth of its budget at the box office, so, naturally, we had to talk about it and dare to ask, “Is it really that bad?” The movie is fundamentally about a student being groomed by her teacher, so there’s a lot at stake in terms of how it addresses victimhood, villainy, and power—and our feelings about the outcome are complicated. Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Marin’s Letterboxd: @marinharrington  Secondary texts referenced: Bunny by Mona Awad My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell The Room (2003) dir. Tommy Wiseau  Jade Halley Bartlett interview with Forbes: “Miller’s Girl As a Villain Origin Story”

    1h 26m

  8. AUG 13

    09. Shirkers

    We wade into the world of documentary filmmaking with Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS (2018), which reflects on Tan’s teenage experience of making a movie with her friends and losing the footage after their teacher steals it. The movie’s “layers of aboutness,” as we writerly types love to say, are plentiful—and get into as much as we can wrap our heads and hearts around: magical realism, punk spirit, youthful determination, and how to live a life that is in service to your art.  Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com Follow us: The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_ Marin’s Letterboxd: @marinharrington  Secondary texts referenced: “Lessons of the Line: Charles Simic and Me” by Dana Levin (from the Yale Review, spring 2024 issue) “After the World-Breaking, World-Building” by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (from Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders)

    1h 28m
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Join writers/friends Maggie (a Millennial) and Marin (a Gen Z-er) as they muse on depictions of girlhood in film, literature, and other media. Tell Me I’m Sorry is a celebration of pop culture, the audacity of youth, and the ways we grow away from and into our bodies and dreams for ourselves and each other. New episodes every other Tuesday.

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