‘Inventing Anna’ review: The con goes on, and on. But a good cast helps this 9-episode Netflix series
A moderately engaging fraud, the nine-episode miniseries “Inventing Anna” brings up the question of focus, and sending a true-scam narrative down intersecting tracks. I think the thinking behind the story structure here goes like this. Netflix subscribers are being asked to stick with nine-plus hours of peculiar true-crime developments as packaged by miniseries creator Shonda Rhimes. The ...
A moderately engaging fraud, the nine-episode miniseries “Inventing Anna” brings up the question of focus, and sending a true-scam narrative down intersecting tracks.
I think the thinking behind the story structure here goes like this. Netflix subscribers are being asked to stick with nine-plus hours of peculiar true-crime developments as packaged by miniseries creator Shonda Rhimes. The episodes map out the Manhattan chicanery of cryptic German socialite Anna Delvey, who was really Anna Sorokin, played by Julia Garner of “Ozark” (and “The
