There were the double Fyre Festival docs, back in 2019, along with the very intriguing HBO series The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. And not every one of the many, many, many series that have come out about cult leaders, scammers, con artists, and, lately, tech entrepreneurs is as mystifyingly bad as Inventing Anna.
ANNA DELVEY DOCUMENTARY NETFLIX MOVIE
Why tell (and retell and retell), on glitzy streaming services and with movie stars and fancy sets, tales of people who defrauded their investors and hurt their friends? What’s the point? In the case of Inventing Anna, the answer is some ethically muddled, bizarrely patronizing mumbo-jumbo about how women are punished for doing things that men get away with. It seems more that the show doesn’t know why it exists. The only explanation available is that they’re just stupid, and yet, you know it can’t be that after all, Delvey is also the subject of an episode of HBO’s series Generation Hustle, as well as an upcoming docuseries. Julia Garner as “fake heiress” Anna Delvey in Inventing Anna. Having watched the whole show, it’s impossible to buy into it. By the end of the series, we’re listening to her lawyer and the journalist investigating the case talk as if she’s Jedi mind-tricked them into slavishly following her every whim.
The series takes for granted that we find Anna entrancing, while portraying her as abrasive and annoying without anything particularly interesting to say. Inventing Anna, the Netflix series in which Julia Garner, using an accurate but bizarre rendering of scammer Anna Delvey’s accent, so fascinates a whole bunch of reasonable people that they get sucked into her orbit, is perhaps the most egregious in this respect. The trend started with docuseries, but many of the same tales have graduated to docudramas, where the central problem gets even more confusing. She wrote about Anna’s payment for Time, explaining: "If your crimes are splashy enough, a media company could snatch up the rights to your story pre-trial so that you’re able to afford the attorney of your choice, one skilled enough to minimise your penalty.Any given night, you can plop onto the couch and gorge yourself on the true tales of people who got taken in, sometimes inexplicably, by someone’s charisma: a lady with a biblical diet plan, a sweaty spiritual guru, a dude throwing a big party in the Bahamas, some guy with a bunch of exotic cats in his backyard.īut it’s weird how few of these series - from Tiger King to LuLaRich to The Vow - manage to make you really understand the appeal of their central grifter, guru, or con artist. One of Anna’s former friends, Rachel DeLoache Williams, has written extensively about her friendship with the fake heiress, where she was scammed out of $63,000 following a trip to Morocco, including her book, My Friend Anna. MORE: Inventing Anna will be your next true crime obsession - here's everything you need to know MORE: The Tinder Swindler: Simon Leviev reacts to shocking Netflix documentary This is what I’m creating out of that story."
I’m just trying to shed light on how I made the best out of my situation, without trying to glorify it. I’m not trying to encourage people to commit crimes.
"I’m also working on a book about my time in jail and working on a podcast as well.
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