Inventing Anna Review Shonda Rhimes Netflix Series On Anna Delvey
At its best, “Inventing Anna” pushes this question forward by re-contextualizing it. Anna Delvey (real surname: Sorokin) may or may not be rich. Anna Delvey (played by “Ozark” Emmy winner Julia Garner) may or may not be a German heiress with a $65 million trust fund. Determining her value is often tied to determining her legitimacy, which is just one of the twisted false equivalencies Shonda Rhimes aims to untangle. Inspired by Jessica Pressler’s reporting, particularly her 2018 New York magazine article on the convicted con artist, the nine-episode Netflix limited series examines who gets access to life-changing financial opportunities, how the sexes are treated differently when it comes to their monetary ambitions and, when that ambition goes too far, the imbalance in their punishment....