Inventing Anna

[Anonymous]

We binged this show yesterday and have one more episode to go. The one thing that hasn't been answered so far is what the heck happened to her gazillion expensive outfits and shoes???? She was literally homeless in New York after getting kicked out of hotels and had to wear her friend's dress for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Very disappointing. Too much time spent on a typical and uninteresting journalist and not enough time on this brilliant scam artist. I still don’t understand Anna. Typical and pat storytelling and dialogue. And it’s a story that should have been told linearly.

Too bad. This could have been riveting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very disappointing. Too much time spent on a typical and uninteresting journalist and not enough time on this brilliant scam artist. I still don’t understand Anna. Typical and pat storytelling and dialogue. And it’s a story that should have been told linearly.

Too bad. This could have been riveting.

+1. I really hate the new fad where flashbacks are the only suspense. Nine hours of waiting to be shown why.

[Anonymous]

I just finished. I don’t think it needed to be that long. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the reporter and lawyer liked her so much. The only character I had any respect for is Kacy. But it was overall pretty entertaining. And now I can’t get that weird accent out of my head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very disappointing. Too much time spent on a typical and uninteresting journalist and not enough time on this brilliant scam artist. I still don’t understand Anna. Typical and pat storytelling and dialogue. And it’s a story that should have been told linearly.

Too bad. This could have been riveting.

+1. I really hate the new fad where flashbacks are the only suspense. Nine hours of waiting to be shown why.

+2. Shonda. She turns everything into “more of the same” now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We binged this show yesterday and have one more episode to go. The one thing that hasn't been answered so far is what the heck happened to her gazillion expensive outfits and shoes???? She was literally homeless in New York after getting kicked out of hotels and had to wear her friend's dress for 2 weeks.

Rachel Williams explained this in her book. The NYC hotel where she was staying kept demanding payment and issuing warnings, and after Anna continued to evade their requests, they locked her out of her room and wouldn’t give her her stuff until she paid. This was after Anna had skipped out of several other hotels without paying and word was starting to get around about her ways. This is how she ended up with no clothes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very disappointing. Too much time spent on a typical and uninteresting journalist and not enough time on this brilliant scam artist. I still don’t understand Anna. Typical and pat storytelling and dialogue. And it’s a story that should have been told linearly.

Too bad. This could have been riveting.

+1.

I was not interested in the reporter or her story at all. I found her exasperating and annoying, and the (many, many) scenes where she groaned and knelt and clutched her pregnant belly were cringe-worthy. I wanted to forward through all of the boring scenes about the reporter and her backstory or her relationships with her husband and coworkers.

The story would have been better without her character.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we supposed to like Rachel? My wife and I both hate her after episode one. Zero redeeming qualities. Without any protagonist in the series it's hard to watch. Just a bunch of dislikable annoying people...

I think the show’s treatment of Rachel is funny because the real-life Rachel was so clearly opportunistic and so insufferably sanctimonious as she criticised Anna in various televised interviews.

Here’s just one clip of Rachel, talking about her two-month friendship with Anna, and Rachel’s utter shock and self-victimization. She does the same little-girl voice and eye-widening expressions that the actress playing her does on the show.

Anna Delvey MADE Rachel Williams as a writer. Rachel’s only story to tell is this one, and she’s profited hugely from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very disappointing. Too much time spent on a typical and uninteresting journalist and not enough time on this brilliant scam artist. I still don’t understand Anna. Typical and pat storytelling and dialogue. And it’s a story that should have been told linearly.

Too bad. This could have been riveting.

+1.

I was not interested in the reporter or her story at all. I found her exasperating and annoying, and the (many, many) scenes where she groaned and knelt and clutched her pregnant belly were cringe-worthy. I wanted to forward through all of the boring scenes about the reporter and her backstory or her relationships with her husband and coworkers.

The story would have been better without her character.

+2. Absolutely agree! And another birth scene?! Come on, these were old twenty years ago.

I agree that Shonda Rhimes makes everything predictable and dull.

[Anonymous]

They really did ruin a really interesting true story.

I’m sorry I wasted my time.

[Anonymous]

Here’s an interview with the real Anna - I guess Julia’s accent was pretty much spot on since Anna’s accent sounds like a mash up of various things. Really weird.

[Anonymous]

https://fb.watch/b9BOFQJ_iQ/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interview with the real Anna - I guess Julia’s accent was pretty much spot on since Anna’s accent sounds like a mash up of various things. Really weird.

But Anna sounds like a russian/euro mashup and Julia speaks like a Southern Natasha Fatale

[Anonymous]

Stopped halfway through. The beginning when they did all those interviews made it seem like they’re going to unpack this brilliant con woman. Instead, we only see one boring flat character with a weird business idea. Also, the reporters pregnancy stuff was so cringe-y.

[Anonymous]

I clicked into this because I thought maybe it was a spin-off about Anna Duggar reinventing herself. I would watch that.