Inventing Anna

[Anonymous]

I couldn't stand the Rachel character. Such a blubbery mess when she should have stood her ground and had Anna arrested in the first place.

However, even though I couldn't stand her, I found myself mad during the last episode when Kacy confronts her at the courthouse, after learning that Rachel helped get Anna arrested. After hearing about ALL the lies and grifting Anna had done, Kacy has the nerve to call out Rachel for helping with the sting?? I wish Rachel had said, "Girl - back off. Anna didn't owe YOU $62,000. She should have been arrested long ago." And then she should have flounced off instead of slinking away like a moron. What was Kacy thinking, defending Anna like that? Barf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I couldn't stand the Rachel character. Such a blubbery mess when she should have stood her ground and had Anna arrested in the first place.

However, even though I couldn't stand her, I found myself mad during the last episode when Kacy confronts her at the courthouse, after learning that Rachel helped get Anna arrested. After hearing about ALL the lies and grifting Anna had done, Kacy has the nerve to call out Rachel for helping with the sting?? I wish Rachel had said, "Girl - back off. Anna didn't owe YOU $62,000. She should have been arrested long ago." And then she should have flounced off instead of slinking away like a moron. What was Kacy thinking, defending Anna like that? Barf.

Except the cops said there was no crime when she went to them. She willingly gave her credit card to the hotel. There was no theft except by Rachel to her company. This wasn’t like the woman whose card racked up all Anna’s clothing charges.

[Anonymous]

I missed something in the series. How did Anna and Rachel become friends?

[Anonymous]

I thought the whole thing was an interesting study in human behavior. Totally get how Anna was just trying to fake it till you make it and she was awfully close, maybe she would have made the foundation and just been another NYC it girl, but the people around her and their willingness to accept her largesse is interesting as well. I think Neff really liked her and she received most of her money in the context of work as did the trainer but Rachel was so jazzed to have this friend who would allow her to access this lifestyle and had no qualms about just taking this money. This is why friendships at vastly different income levels are a problem.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get Rachel. She was basically living off Anna enjoying a life she couldn’t afford and was upset that she had to pay 62k? Why are you using ppl to stay at places you can’t afford?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I missed something in the series. How did Anna and Rachel become friends?

Just like everyone else, they heard Anna make some smarmy comment about art/clothes then became besties.

[Anonymous]

I enjoyed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I couldn't stand the Rachel character. Such a blubbery mess when she should have stood her ground and had Anna arrested in the first place.

However, even though I couldn't stand her, I found myself mad during the last episode when Kacy confronts her at the courthouse, after learning that Rachel helped get Anna arrested. After hearing about ALL the lies and grifting Anna had done, Kacy has the nerve to call out Rachel for helping with the sting?? I wish Rachel had said, "Girl - back off. Anna didn't owe YOU $62,000. She should have been arrested long ago." And then she should have flounced off instead of slinking away like a moron. What was Kacy thinking, defending Anna like that? Barf.

Except the cops said there was no crime when she went to them. She willingly gave her credit card to the hotel. There was no theft except by Rachel to her company. This wasn’t like the woman whose card racked up all Anna’s clothing charges.

Also… didn’t the credit card company “write off” the $62K? If so, in the end Rachel actually benefited from Anna’s scheme?

[Anonymous]

Anna must have one heck of a personality to have fooled so many people. Who just gives people access to their credit card? Is this a rich people thing? I am like Kacy…I don’t have any money to give and you can’t move into my house!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So in real life did Anna have some kind of money? She had to have some money so was her family really wiring her money? I think that was part of the scam but some of the cash had to come from somewhere.

This is the part I just don't understand. She must have had SOME money to have started out with all the designer clothes, etc.

I was thinking this too but then I remember in the first few episodes how they talked about how there were different versions of Anna...one of them said, she wore designer clothes all the time, another said she wore Zara, HM, etc. My guess is that she started with the latter and then got all the new clothes from that one rich woman who she charged everything to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I missed something in the series. How did Anna and Rachel become friends?

It was when she was on the stand. She basically saw Anna on social media and cyber stalked her. She wanted to be friends with her. Whether she DM’d her or ‘bumped’ into her on purpose is unknown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in real life did Anna have some kind of money? She had to have some money so was her family really wiring her money? I think that was part of the scam but some of the cash had to come from somewhere.

This is the part I just don't understand. She must have had SOME money to have started out with all the designer clothes, etc.

I was thinking this too but then I remember in the first few episodes how they talked about how there were different versions of Anna...one of them said, she wore designer clothes all the time, another said she wore Zara, HM, etc. My guess is that she started with the latter and then got all the new clothes from that one rich woman who she charged everything to.

She interned with a fashion magazine, maybe got some leftover/extras.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in real life did Anna have some kind of money? She had to have some money so was her family really wiring her money? I think that was part of the scam but some of the cash had to come from somewhere.

This is the part I just don't understand. She must have had SOME money to have started out with all the designer clothes, etc.

I was thinking this too but then I remember in the first few episodes how they talked about how there were different versions of Anna...one of them said, she wore designer clothes all the time, another said she wore Zara, HM, etc. My guess is that she started with the latter and then got all the new clothes from that one rich woman who she charged everything to.

She interned with a fashion magazine, maybe got some leftover/extras.

Highly possible. I worked for a fashion company. We would lend clothes for shoots but some things were" lost." If an intern was returning stuff from a shoot we might give them something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in real life did Anna have some kind of money? She had to have some money so was her family really wiring her money? I think that was part of the scam but some of the cash had to come from somewhere.

This is the part I just don't understand. She must have had SOME money to have started out with all the designer clothes, etc.

I was thinking this too but then I remember in the first few episodes how they talked about how there were different versions of Anna...one of them said, she wore designer clothes all the time, another said she wore Zara, HM, etc. My guess is that she started with the latter and then got all the new clothes from that one rich woman who she charged everything to.

She interned with a fashion magazine, maybe got some leftover/extras.

Highly possible. I worked for a fashion company. We would lend clothes for shoots but some things were" lost." If an intern was returning stuff from a shoot we might give them something.

These are the kinds of questions I wish that the show had answered, especially since the show raised them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I couldn't stand the Rachel character. Such a blubbery mess when she should have stood her ground and had Anna arrested in the first place.

However, even though I couldn't stand her, I found myself mad during the last episode when Kacy confronts her at the courthouse, after learning that Rachel helped get Anna arrested. After hearing about ALL the lies and grifting Anna had done, Kacy has the nerve to call out Rachel for helping with the sting?? I wish Rachel had said, "Girl - back off. Anna didn't owe YOU $62,000. She should have been arrested long ago." And then she should have flounced off instead of slinking away like a moron. What was Kacy thinking, defending Anna like that? Barf.

Except the cops said there was no crime when she went to them. She willingly gave her credit card to the hotel. There was no theft except by Rachel to her company. This wasn’t like the woman whose card racked up all Anna’s clothing charges.

Also… didn’t the credit card company “write off” the $62K? If so, in the end Rachel actually benefited from Anna’s scheme?

I can’t remember if AMEX did or Vanity Fair paid it. It seems odd that AMEX wrote it off given the card wasn’t stolen/it wasn’t fraud. But maybe the business VF does with them made it worth it.