The new Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna presents the story of Anna Sorokin (played by Julia Garner), who posed as a European heiress named Anna Delvey and scammed her way through Manhattan high society. Thanks to the reporting of Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky), Anna becomes a social-media cause célèbre, praised and condemned in equal measure for how easily she got over on all her rich marks. The response to her profile of Anna doesn’t sit right with Vivian, though, who eventually complains to her husband, Jack (Anders Holm), that people missed the real story. When a confused Jack asks her to clarify what that real story is, Vivian is at a loss, murmuring, “Something about class, social mobility, identity under capitalism… I don’t know.”
That difficulty clarifying the story unfortunately extends to Inventing Anna itself. Despite being created by juicy-TV mastermind
