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Critic Reviews
The GuardianFeb 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This is a show for those mainly looking to marvel – at the effrontery, the style, the steel nerves of the twentysomething weaving webs from inside a house of cards built on thin ice. Those who are looking for an in-depth, analytical take on the Delvey phenomenon, her pathology or motivations – which the handful of previous documentaries about her have lacked – will have to wait a little longer. ... Julia Garner is mesmerising as Anna.
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Feb 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The modesty of its thematic and narrative ambitions keep Inventing Anna from being a great show. It could have been truly great if it had decided to really be about something, but instead it's content to just be fun. It knows what it is and succeeds at what it sets out to do.
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Feb 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
An entertaining if overlong look into the mind of a chic, haughty sociopath. The accent is unsettling, and mysterious, and fascinating, just like the woman employing it. I’m not sure the show — which is fictionalized — quite gets at what led Anna to commit her crimes, psychologically or otherwise.
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Feb 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Rhimes brings in familiar faces from other Shondaland shows, travels to exotic places, has Anna strut about in all manner of glitzy outfits — Anna loves to shop — and generally offers up solid modern TV entertainment. But a tighter, more succinct work would have lived up to Garner’s performance.
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IndieWireFeb 9, 2022
Feb 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Inventing Anna” isn’t a tough watch. The actors do a lot to compensate for what’s missing. But it’s overly devoted to the Vivian part of the story. If anything, I found myself wishing Alexis Floyd’s Neff could somehow spin off her own series, right in the middle of this one.
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Feb 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Chlumsky does her best with the routine role of the disheveled, suspecting journalist, but while Vivian’s relationship with her dismissive editor, Paul (Tim Guinee), gestures at workplace issues like sexism, her subplot is comparatively flimsy, and conspicuously feels like just a framing device for Anna’s backstory.
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iFeb 14, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This might not be the Anna Delvey drama we expected. It’s more trash than grit, though undeniably enjoyable. As a true crime Gossip Girl, it’s a fun, slick joyride. But once you try to take it as seriously as her crimes, it’s hard to see Inventing Anna as anything other than a very expensive Anna Delvey PR campaign.
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Feb 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Her haute/hilarious accent is both irritating and irresistible. So is a lot of the dialogue, but the series is constantly winking at its audience. The structures are formulaic, the hip-hop soundtrack is intrusive and wrong; the effort to fashion Anna into some kind of feminist martyr is shameless.
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Feb 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Rhimes never sufficiently explores the common psychological elements that the journalist and her subject share in a way that could add meaning on the story. It's the opposite: her thin rendering of each relationship to the other feeds the show's other significant flaws.
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The Daily BeastFeb 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There’s a disconnect between the fantasy lavish life that Anna lived, as we see it on screen, and the labored pursuit to piece together the puzzle of her crimes. This is never successfully bridged in a way that has you invested wholly in either Vivian or Anna, or even fully understanding their respective motivations.
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