Inventing Anna

[Anonymous]

I know it was probably for the purposes of the show and the mystery…but why the hell didn’t the journalist look for Anna’s parents first? We didn’t learn about her family until the very end. The journalist asked pretty much everyone else by that point. That was extremely annoying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, you are all so basic.

I am hearing this in Anna's bizarre Euro-trash accent ^^

Same. All of you are fat.

[Anonymous]

Also I looked up real Anna’s picture and I mean, where is the style they all talked about? She looked sooo Russian on those pictures I was laughing my ass off. Make up and clothes, typical Russian. How did she fool anyone. The Anna on Netflix looks completely different

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it was probably for the purposes of the show and the mystery…but why the hell didn’t the journalist look for Anna’s parents first? We didn’t learn about her family until the very end. The journalist asked pretty much everyone else by that point. That was extremely annoying.

I don't think that actually happened. That whole episode seemed contrived and made up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it was probably for the purposes of the show and the mystery…but why the hell didn’t the journalist look for Anna’s parents first? We didn’t learn about her family until the very end. The journalist asked pretty much everyone else by that point. That was extremely annoying.

Her bosses would not have paid for it before the article became the success it did.

[Anonymous]

I’m late to this but has anyone explained Anna’s awful-sounding voice & accent? Is it authentic of something? I get that Russian and German are “harsh” sounding but not nasally and whatever else Anna had going.

[Anonymous]

I found the series incredibly slow moving although the story is fascinating. I did a lot of fast forwarding throughout the entire series.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm am perplexed by this as a human social experiment of sorts. So, all it takes to pose as an upper class socialite is to wear designer clothes head to toe? And if you wear designer clothes banks are willing to give you 20 mil loan?

That is all it takes?

+1
It perplexed me too. And the fact that Anna knew so much about the finance world at such a young age, with no real work experience. I can't even imagine knowing all the right things to say in order to get someone to loan me $20 million!

This is like, con-artist 101. Have any of you read or seen "Catch Me if You Can"? They just fake it + charisma. Goes a long way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m late to this but has anyone explained Anna’s awful-sounding voice & accent? Is it authentic of something? I get that Russian and German are “harsh” sounding but not nasally and whatever else Anna had going.

She had a russian accent but was faking german. It did not work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it was probably for the purposes of the show and the mystery…but why the hell didn’t the journalist look for Anna’s parents first? We didn’t learn about her family until the very end. The journalist asked pretty much everyone else by that point. That was extremely annoying.

Agreed. And I still can’t fathom how that bank was even contemplating loaning her $20 million - much less $5.00. She didn’t have any proof of anything!

[Anonymous]

She reminds me so much of the other Russian Anna who runs the "School of Affluence".

[Anonymous]

I was sadden when the reporter went to Germany and in the small town at the shop the man said he didn’t trust Russians. Then Anna, who is really untrustworthy, ended up being a scammer. She knew it never would have been feasible in Germany because no one would have believed her. Now her story is being reported in Germany and it leads credence to people who believe all Russians immigrants are scammers. So all the trustworthy Russian immigrants are really getting hurt by her.

[Anonymous]

Do we know how she paid her attorney?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we know how she paid her attorney?

I thought he was doing it more for the notoriety. His wife is super rich so he didn't need the money. But I could be wrong.

I was wondering how she had $100 bills all the time to pay Neff. Where did that come from? I'm not finished yet (one more episode to go) but I still don't understand how Neff remained so invested in Anna after seeing how she lied and cheated over and over again. I get that she bought her friendship early on but I would have a hard time standing by someone who cheated another friend out of $62K, even if she is partly to blame. I don't blame Rachel at all for telling her story.

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Anonymous wrote:Do we know how she paid her attorney?

I thought he was doing it more for the notoriety. His wife is super rich so he didn't need the money. But I could be wrong.

I was wondering how she had $100 bills all the time to pay Neff. Where did that come from? I'm not finished yet (one more episode to go) but I still don't understand how Neff remained so invested in Anna after seeing how she lied and cheated over and over again. I get that she bought her friendship early on but I would have a hard time standing by someone who cheated another friend out of $62K, even if she is partly to blame. I don't blame Rachel at all for telling her story.

I thought that was from the $200K good faith advance that the finance company deposited for her? But I don’t understand the $30K that she used to pay the bill at Neff’s hotel - it seemed as though she had blown through all that money by then.