Inventing Anna - Netflix

[HeyItsPickleRick]

I've been obsessed with this case since listening to The Fake Heiress on BBC sounds. Is anyone else watching?! I love the casting of Anna.

She's Ruth from Ozark. It could do with being a LOT shorter and the real/ not real storyline is a bit annoying. I've watched 4 and have to say, when I looked to see how many episodes to go my heart sunk. We shall see how it goes.

@billydilly

So disappointing. Massively elongated and only picks up in the final three. Good performances all round (apart from the insufferable Cox) but ultimately a let down. The podcast was so much better.

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@longwayoff

She's Ruth from Ozark. It could do with being a LOT shorter and the real/ not real storyline is a bit annoying. I've watched 4 and have to say, when I looked to see how many episodes to go my heart sunk. We shall see how it goes.

She's a brilliant actress. Her performance almost makes it worth wading through the rest ... but I'm not sure I will make it to the end. As a PP said, it's a big commitment.

@FitAtFifty eh?

There is a podcast called swindled that does an amazing episode on this case

It is way too long. 4 episodes would be about right.

@jay55 it is a bit too long tbh. It takes too log to get going and it's not chronological I'd give 4/10

It's also a bit annoying with the back story with the pregnant reporter, the usage of other 'shondaland' actors so all I can think is 'oh that's Ellis gray and thatcher gray but that's my own idiosyncratic way tbh. Also one of the other lawyers is in another shonda production 'the people' and that's distracting too

I really want to like this as interested in the story but I am already ( in ep 1) finding the Shonda "repeat everything 3 times" way irritating. Hopefully the story overtakes the style, and yes, agree about the usual stable of actors making an appearance.

How would you even enjoy all the luxury knowing it was only time before someone outed you

Very silly. Anna’s accent is hilarious. Fun to watch with teen girls.

@MsTSwift if you Google her she's got the accent almost spot on! The real Anna sounds exactly like that!

[quote HarreePotter]@MsTSwift if you Google her she's got the accent almost spot on! The real Anna sounds exactly like that![/quote]
There is a good 60 minutes documentary on You Tube and it’s uncanny how similar the accent is. While it sounded ridiculous in the programme you are right, it is a spot on copy

It's odd that it's not that good because there are two really good stories embedded in it. If only they had picked one and focused on it (for a much shorter period of time!).

There's the story about Anna and the sexist response which led her to a heavy jail sentence when male swindlers often get less. And the role of her bf in the con.

The story about the journalist - actually following her from being conned by the fake investor story that damaged her career; through her writing of the Hustlers story then the Anna story and finally how those articles formed the basis for a movie and a series. Plus what those stories say about women/money/power and how women's white collar crimes are covered differently in the media.

It's a bit ironic that the journalist is interested in Anna's story because she feels Anna is being dismissed as a socialite but she must be smarter than that. The journalist is being portrayed as dipsy and disorganised yet she must be more than that too.

(disclaimer I still haven't made it past episode 2 so maybe it improves immeasurably after that)

I’m not enjoying it as much as the podcast

@Womencanlift I looked for the documentary. Did you Google delvey or sorokin?

I just searched for Anna Delvey documentary in you tube and it was the first one that came up

I’m really looking forward to watching, the podcast on BBC Sounds was excellent!!!

I think the actress who played anna is too young and sweet looking compared to the real anna

Hmm I’m not sure. Strange to fictionalise something that was so much stranger than fiction anyway. The podcast was great and had me hooked. I’ll keep going with this though and hope it improves.

Just finished the marathon. It was long. Ridiculously long and BillStickers you're right, quite odd enough without the clunky fictionalised insertion which I found unnecessary and distracting. Overall, I haven't found this a very satisfactory production.

I'm at the end too. I really enjoyed the trial and wished they'd got to that sooner and spent a bit more time on it.
I think it was really clunky storytelling and very uneven. And with so much background on people, I'd have loved to know more about the lawyer and his wife, they were actually interesting.

I'm on episode 4 now, and it's just got to part where she's showing them round the Park Avenue property and explaining her 'vision', which to me just sounds full on delusional. She wants to create an exclusive club and basically play gatekeeper to art. Oh, and also have a load of high end restaurants. I feel like a must be missing something, because the journalist keep going on about what an amazing and clever person she is, but so far all she has really done is commit some credit card fraud.

@GruffaloSolja

I'm on episode 4 now, and it's just got to part where she's showing them round the Park Avenue property and explaining her 'vision', which to me just sounds full on delusional. She wants to create an exclusive club and basically play gatekeeper to art. Oh, and also have a load of high end restaurants. I feel like a must be missing something, because the journalist keep going on about what an amazing and clever person she is, but so far all she has really done is commit some credit card fraud.

I think she is impressed by her infiltration into a world where you'd normally not be able to enter without a (real) prestigious name and/or being successful in your own right as a leading business person. She was 25 and by that point had convinced a leading architect, the Nobu chef, a leading designer and others to partner with her ...when she had no track record of anything in this sphere.

I'm enjoying this.