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Inventing Anna

2022

Shonda Rhimes (Creator), David Frankel ...

Julia Garner, Anna Chlumsky, Jennifer Esposito, Laverne Cox ...

5.8

2,829

TV Series. Drama 9 episodes. A journalist investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary heiress who stole the hearts -- and money -- of New York's social elite. A Television mini series created and produced by Shonda Rhimes, based on the New York Magazine article "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People" by Jessica Pressler.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jennifer Keishin Armstrong The Wrap	"Anna’s mishmash accent (...) could have sunk the enterprise on its own. But in Garner’s mouth, it is, in fact, kind-of iconic. Watch enough of the series and she’ll infect your brain"
		Angie Han The Hollywood Reporter	"The results are occasionally messy and often unwieldy — most of its nine episodes clock in at over an hour each — but they’re also savvy, sly and compulsively watchable."
		Anita Singh Telegraph	"A drama as trashy and superficial as its con artist protagonist (...) There is no attempt to discover Delvey’s motivation, or the roots of her manipulative narcissism (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Caroline Framke Variety	"[It] is at its best when zipping through snappy 'Scandal'-esque banter, but is also weighed down by oppressively long episodes."
		Lauren Morris Radio Times	"An unnecessarily melodramatic, bulky, one-note take on one of the most interesting stories to come out of the 2010s and a real let-down (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Hugh Montgomery BBC	"The real trick that this series pulls off is that it manages to be both brashly, glossily entertaining and knottier, more complex fare than it first appears (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"It’s an overly long muddle, never quite sure what it wants to say about its title character, or how to say it (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Saloni Gajjar AV Club	"'Inventing Anna's ensemble is impeccable (...) [It] demands patience that doesn’t pay off, squandering its promising potential along the way."
		Sabrina Barr Metro	"[It will] captivate you from start to finish (...) All the various jigsaw pieces of the story come together in a satisfying way by the end (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Katie Rosseinsky London Evening Standard	"[It] is slick and enjoyably OTT but doesn’t exactly present a probing portrait of Anna Delvey (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Liam Mathews TV Guide	"It's content to just be fun. It knows what it is and succeeds at what it sets out to do."
		Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"A show like this should try to give us a more complex portrait of its flawed central figure (...) It left me cold"
		Noel Murray Polygon	"'Inventing Anna' can't make fiction stranger than the truth (...) Both the main characters remain somewhat opaque, because they're defined less by their specific goals than by the nebulous act of wanting"
		Bill Goodykoontz USA Today	"Nods to the power of social media, the influence of media, the curdling of the American dream and more. Too much that adds to too little. A compelling story to tell, but 'Inventing Anna' isn't it (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

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