Inventing Anna is the most popular new English-language show Netflix has released this year so far. The limited series has not left the top half of Netflix’s Daily Top 10 TV shows list since it was released on February 11. It’s captured more of the conversation than any of the other shows in the present wave of true stories about venture capital-funded liars, inspired at least one great TikTok meme – “I do not have time for this, I do not have time for you!” — and introduced millions of people all over the world to the fascinating story of Anna Delvey, who managed to make people believe she had tens of millions of dollars in the bank because she acted like she had tens of millions of dollars in the bank.
Inventing Anna follows a reporter named Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) — a fictionalized rendering of journalist Jessica Pressler, who wrote the viral New York Magazine article on which Inventing Anna is based — as she tries to unravel a mystery that keeps her up at night: How did Anna Delvey, a young Russian-born German citizen legally named Anna Sorokin, convince members of New York City’s high society that she was a German heiress whom they should lend money to in order to finance her ambitious business dreams? To find out, she interviews Delvey (Julia Garner) in jail, as well as Delvey’s friends/victims, and they all tell their side of the story about how Anna made them believe in her, in spite of her vague backstory, shady behavior, and general lack of…
