- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 11, 2022
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Unfortunately, the series spends nearly as much time with another Anna: Anna Chlumsky, in an overwrought performance as the journalist desperate to tell Anna's story. [14 - 27 Feb 2022, p.6]
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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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In treating Anna with a shrug, Inventing Anna never quite justifies its own existence. Instead, it strings its viewers along with the possibility of reaching some profound revelation, but in the end, it’s a knockoff posing as couture.
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[“Inventing Anna” is] rife with great performances, and devoid of writing to match. ... If “Inventing Anna” possesses any relevance at all, it’s due to the quality of its cast. Julia Garner is disturbingly flawless as Anna Delvey.
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Delvey’s story is riveting. The series, sadly, is not. It’s five hours too long and far too formulaic to keep up with its brazen protagonist, played here by “Ozark’s” Julia Garner. But for all its problems, it’s hard to stop watching “Inventing Anna”.
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A bit of a slog — a series that seeks to be a little too inventive for its own good.
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Garner and Chlumsky—along with Arian Moayed as Delvey’s attorney, Todd Spodek, and Alexis Floyd, playing Delvey’s hotel concierge BFF Neffatari “Neff” Davis—seem to be in a much better show than what Inventing Anna turns out to be.
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[Arian Moayed's] scenes with Garner in the 82-minute (!) finale, which focuses on Anna's trial, are electric — the few moments Inventing Anna lives up to its promise. The rest of the time, the series feels like one extremely long con.
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Garner fully commits to the role without missing its comedic beats. She seems to both be steeped in Anna’s world and ironically to the side of it—in a series that is often flattened by its formal mediocrity, hers is an excellent performance.
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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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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 stretched out, heavily padded “Inventing Anna” works as a clichéd morality tale but stumbles badly as a piece of storytelling — more invention and incident means less coherence and less consistent characterization.
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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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Inventing Anna careens all over the place, and one of its only consistencies is an exhausting insistence that Delvey was talented but misunderstood.
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[Inventing Anna] takes this fascinating story of a con artist who scammed Manhattan society and breezes through it with all the depth of an Emily in Paris episode.
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Inventing Anna is 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.
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It’s an overly long muddle, never quite sure what it wants to say about its title character, or how to say it.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 17
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Mixed: 7 out of 17
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Negative: 4 out of 17
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Feb 22, 2022
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Mar 9, 2022bad
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Feb 18, 2022