The new series of Shonda Rhimes was put online this February 11 on Netflix. Inventing Anna tells the story of Anna Delvey, a young woman of Russian origin who cheated millions of dollars from wealthy New Yorkers. For the American press, the disappointment is as great as the expectation was great.
“This whole story, the one you’re going to follow, ass laid like a big pile, it’s regarding me.” Shonda Rhimes would probably not have risked such an introduction when she worked for ABC, a Disney group channel intended for a family audience. At the time, she broke audience records, every Thursday evening, with her series Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder.
But the American has now moved into the Netflix stable. A year following producing for the streaming platform The Bridgerton Chronicles, she comes back with Inventing Anna, his first creation since Scandal (2012-2018). And “we can clearly feel the relief and joy she feels at being able to let her characters say bad words”, believes to detect the magazine Rolling Stone. Over the episodes, the swear word fuck, taboo word on the big channels across the Atlantic, is pronounced on all tones.
Inspired by an article from “New York Magazine”
The person who calls the public a “big pile” is Anna Delvey, played by Julia Garner (impressive in Ozark, another Netflix series). Unless you should call her Anna Sorokin. Arrested in 2017 in California, this young German of Russian origin had managed to pass herself off as a wealthy heiress in New York high society. She had extracted millions of dollars from a few gullible preys and left slates in the biggest palaces of the city. She was convicted in 2019 of fraud, organized crime and organized crime.
In 2018, the New York Magazine had devoted a long portrait to Anna Delvey which had marked the spirits, “because of all the questions he left unanswered, remember The New York Times. He mightn’t explain either the scammer’s motives or the credulity of her victims. “Under its veneer of nonchalance, [cette enquête] went to the essential with a form of radicalism, even brutality, and this inhumanity had the effect of a big electric shock”, still writes the daily. It was this article that inspired Shonda Rhimes to write her new series.
“As tasty as a pack of Cheerios”
As the article of New York Magazine, Inventing Anna fails to pin down its heroine or grasp how she managed to fool so many people. But for the American press, this time is a disappointment. The nine-episode series “gets bogged down without ever really knowing what she wants to say regarding her main character, or how to say it”, strikes Rolling Stone. She is “way too long”, acquiesce The Wall Street Journal. She is “as tasty as a pack of Cheerios”, regret it Washington Post, which publishes one of the most murderous reviews.
The New York Times resorts to another metaphor to arrive at the same sentence: the article of the New
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Marie Beloeil
