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And the apologies wedoget rarely feel consequential.
They hardly ever transcend suspicion of being mere exercises in image management.
Its a sorry state of sorries.
Into this muck stepsSay Youre Sorry, a new Audible Original that dropped earlier this month.
Say Youre Sorryis structured as a survey of several case studies from a few different apology arenas.
One such arena in the celebrity apology, perhaps the most popularly traded form in the genre.
(They are, after all, the source of her wealth and power.)
Say Youre Sorryrecounts the details of that story in forensic fashion, sometimes nearing the point of parody.
But the meticulous approach is a big part of the shows draw.
But the warm reception would curdle as she began to notice the machinery behind the note.
She spots a school administrator circulating coverage of the apology as positive press.
Whatever goodwill there was immediately evaporated, as the cold logic of the institutions self-preservation gambit made itself known.
The tension between performance and intent runs throughoutSay Youre Sorry.
(Both stories feature elsewhere in the season.)
Therein lies the rub.
What is the point?
Its a graceful choice, but also a bit of a bummer.
