Inventing Anna

Inventing Anna is a Netflix series based on a true story about a woman named Anna Sorokin, aired on Netflix on February 11, 2022. Inventing Anna has only released one season on Netflix with nine episodes. Anna Sorokin,  a con woman also known by the name Anna Delvey took heaps of money from friends. Anna Sorokin was born in Russia and later moved to New York in 2013 where she started her career as a con artist. When she moved to New York she started going by the alias of Anna Delvey.

To the public, she was an extremely wealthy woman. The friends that she made in New York were under the impression that she had around $60 million. In Inventing Anna she told all of her new friends that her money was overseas and she couldn’t get access to it.  Because of this, they would pay for her stays in hotels, her meals, and pay for her shopping needs. Inventing Anna shows how many people she betrayed. A lot of these friends even gave her cash. Though, these friends she made remained under the impression they would get paid back, as they thought she had a fortune.

Ultimately Sorokin got larceny and theft convictions and remained in prison from 2019-2021. In 2021 Delvey got deported back to Germany where she was from. The short one-season series Inventing Anna follows a reporter eager to learn more about Anna. Throughout the series Inventing Anna, the reporter tries to gain information from Anna as to how she managed to easily steal people’s money and their hearts.

The reviews from this short series were actually not very good. Unfortunately to some critics, Inventing Anna wasn’t even worth the watch. Some critics claim that it took too long to get to the point. Claiming when it finally got to the point, it wasn’t worth it.