Inventing Anna: Netflix’s frothy scammer drama is ‘all a bit silly’

Show tells story of Anna Delvey, the woman who infiltrated New York society

Julia Garner as Anna Delvey
Julia Garner as Anna Delvey
(Image credit: Aaron Epstein/Netflix)

Few stories feel as “perfectly poised for the screen” as that of Anna Delvey – the Russian truck driver’s daughter who infiltrated New York society by posing as a German heiress, and defrauded banks and individuals out of hundreds of thousands of dollars along the way. A magazine article about her went viral in 2018; now Netflix has turned the affair into a “nine-episode romp”, said Annabel Nugent in The Independent.

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