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.
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
NANCY DREW (2007) was one of Marin’s favorite movies as a child. Does it hold up? Not really! But Maggie hypothesizes why it makes sense that Young Marin would be smitten with this movie. We also talk about the movie’s depictions of danger, perfection, and violent /clueless/entitled men/boys—all of which leads us to wonder: are we over-thinking this PG movie?
Email your own musings and questions to tellmeimsorry@gmail.com
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The podcast’s Instagram: @tellmeimsorry
Maggie’s Instagram: @_saint_margaret_
Marin’s Letterboxd: @marinharrington
Secondary texts referenced:
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
“‘Nancy Drew’ Revisited” by Barbara S. Wertheimer and Carol Sands, Language Arts
Incorrect Logline: Warner Bros.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Early into this episode, Marin likens watching Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET (1997) for the first time to “seeing God,” so, yeah, we loved this. We discuss the film’s tenderness towards its characters and its refreshing portraits of girlhood and masculinity, particularly via the gaze of the camera itself. While Maggie’s prowess as a high school literature teacher is on full display, Marin connects the film to not one but TWO teen dramas. Also, we introduce a new closing segment!
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:
“Elizabethan Street Fighting” by Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, ep. 24
“The Female Gaze” by Alexis Loftis, Sartorial Magazine
“Jenny Han Explains How Pop Music is Central to The Summer I Turned Pretty” by Malia Mendez,
Los Angeles Times
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Summer I Turned Pretty, season 2, episode 2
Dawson’s Creek, season 3, episode 14
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Welcome to the very first episode of Tell Me I’m Sorry! We’re so thankful you’re here as we discuss the underrated 90s GEM of a film, EVER AFTER (1998). Maggie shares her lifelong love of Drew Barrymore (which she proves via a reading from her teenage diary), Marin laments her young self’s lack of appreciation for the film, and we talk about how this re-telling of Cinderella diverges from other versions of the fairytale to give us characters, friendships, and romance worth rooting for.
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:
Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
“Cinderella” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
“Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper” by Charles Perrault
Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction by Annis Pratt
Melanie Lynskey interview on Fresh Air
Incorrect Logline: Letterboxd
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
In this short intro episode, Maggie and Marin introduce themselves, the structure of each episode, and the inspiration for the show’s title! We also touch on the supposed feuds between Millennials and Gen Z-ers on the internet. (Spoiler: Maggie is a Millennial and Marin is a Gen Z-er and neither of us understand any of this nonsense.)