Anna Delvey, who swindled New York’s elite out of hundreds of thousands of dollars – if only the show had faith in its own premise.
Now streaming on Netflix, “Inventing Anna” is based on a viral 2018 New York Magazine article about Delvey (nee Sorokin), 31 — Russian-born and raised in Germany — who defrauded banks, hotels and acquaintances while posing as a trust-fund heiress in New York between 2013-2017.
She was convicted for multiple accounts of grand larceny, indicted in 2017 and incarcerated from 2019-2021. Helmed by Shonda Rhimes and starring Julia Garner (“Ozark”) — a skilled actress who seems to have been given bad directing to hide behind a distracting marble-mouthed accent to play Delvey — “Inventing Anna” is a bloated affair, with episodes regularly clocking in at over an hour, which feels punishing. (One episode is an egregiously unnecessary 82 minutes long.) Each episode starts with an onscreen graphic that reads: “This story is completely true.
Except for the parts that are totally made up.” It’s meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but it’s telling about “Inventing Anna” as a whole: this series would have done better to stick to the truth, which is already interesting, instead of weighing it down with fictional embellishments.
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