What Inventing Anna gets right is a certain, perhaps crass, appreciation for how wild these grifter stories can be. And at every pivotal turn, it seems to be trying on a new identity, all the way up until the bitter end of its unforgivably overlong episodes. Perhaps taking a cue from the Anna Delvey phenomenon itself, it has only a superficial understanding of what it should be, or at least what audiences might want it to be. That’s what makes this telling so confusing and, in the end, a bit of a letdown. The appeal of Inventing Anna should be a no-brainer-emphasis on should.Ī story this batshit and so tapped into the zeitgeisty obsession with cons and scams is a foolproof formula for a streaming hit. And, as a TV series, it’s both Inventing Anna’s greatest gift and most insurmountable hurdle. The blurred line of performance and authenticity provided cover for the woman who became known as the “Soho grifter.” A lack of any sort of normalcy was her shield. But her personality was equally malleable and unpredictable, often at odds with the mood of a room or an interaction. Wardrobe is tailored to ingratiate her to her next target. She’s an inventor of entirely new vowel sounds master of an international dialect that hitherto had never even existed.ĭelvey was a shapeshifter, but not just aesthetically. Garner’s accent is outrageous, purposefully so. Couple that with the performance of Ozark Emmy-winner Julia Garner in the role. But she is otherworldly in a way that mystified anyone who had a close encounter of any kind with her, not to mention those who read about her schemes after she was captured in the jaw-dropping New York magazine feature that inspired the new Netflix series and, now, all of us watching it dramatized by none other than Shonda Rhimes herself.īut there is something about the constant refrain that surrounds all things Anna Delvey, both then-“Who is she?”-and now-“How did she get away with it?”-that signifies someone who defies human logic. Inventing Anna is not some sort of sci-fi series, and the odds are that Delvey/Sorokin is not, in fact, a Martian. The passive bluntness of her cruel asides-casual, drive-by dismantling of the ego-reflected the kind of human-adjacent behavior that fascinated and destabilized people, and that allowed her to manipulate people into doing her bidding/transport them to her UFO where she would probe and persuade until they agreed to give her money.ĭon’t let this be too misleading. Her unplaceable European accent-German by way of Russian by way of The Count from Sesame Street-acted as a hypnotizing charm. It’s also unclear if Anna did herself.Īnna Delvey, also known as Anna Sorokin, posed as a German heiress and leveraged the legend of her wealth to facilitate her swanning through the life of a 1 percenter, a world that never questioned her or the fact that she never left her credit card while running a tab because of her pedigree/extraterrestrial status. It’s unclear if anyone involved in this new series, from Shonda Rhimes and dropping on Netflix Friday, had clear direction. The journey to discover which is an, at turns, incredible yet interminable ride. The TV series Inventing Anna is either about an enigmatic con artist who scammed her way into elite social circles and allegedly swindled millions of dollars in clothes, luxury trips, and massive loans from some of the most powerful people and financial institutions in the world, or it is the harrowing, yet charming story about the first alien to ever walk among us on Earth.
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