Inventing Anna Netflix Series Review

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00:00So you just, you just trick people into thinking you have money and they believe you.

00:05I should try that on my wife, but she knows I spend it all on pop figures.

00:08I have a problem.

00:09What is up Netflix fans?

00:11Welcome back to my channel.

00:12As always, we're talking the brand new streaming movie or series that just dropped.

00:16And today's show is Inventing Anna.

00:19This is a fascinating true story.

00:21Or is it?

00:22It's one we're going to talk about spoiler free and I need your thoughts down below.

00:25Is this one worth a watch in your opinion?

00:28So a journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey,

00:32the Instagram legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York's social scene

00:37and stole their money as well.

00:39Anna Chlumsky plays Vivian.

00:40Julia Garner plays Anna.

00:42And this is, of course, based on a New York Magazine article created by Shonda Rhimes.

00:47Of course, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal.

00:49Some of that charm transfers over into this series.

00:52And you have our main two characters who form this very interesting love-hate relationship

00:56as Anna is awaiting her trial.

00:58And our main reporter, who's trying to answer the question I think we're all asking ourselves

01:02throughout the first three to four episodes of this series,

01:04who is Anna?

01:05Because it feels like every time we learn something about her,

01:08whether that be where she came from or the different stories that she's telling various people.

01:14And a lot of the time she sticks to the same story.

01:17But for the most part, you still don't know.

01:19I mean, halfway through the show, you don't know who Anna is.

01:23And we, along with our main journalist, were trying to get our answers

01:27by seeing this series of flashbacks that we get every time Vivian asks a question.

01:33She's going from person to person, kind of retracing these steps.

01:36And as she is asking those questions, how do you know Anna?

01:40How are you introduced?

01:41Did she indeed swindle you in the way that we have kind of been uncovering throughout this series?

01:47And thus, we get our flashback.

01:49And a lot of those flashbacks take up the majority of the episodes.

01:53But that is our show.

01:54We've seen various cases of this type of thing before in movies and television shows.

01:59This is loosely based on an article.

02:01Of course, a lot of it is fictionalized.

02:03And then you look at Julia Garner, who plays the title character of Anna,

02:07who was born in Russia, moved to Germany.

02:09And I was questioning the accent at first.

02:12It felt a bit absurd.

02:14I didn't know if she was kind of stretching it.

02:16I know Julia Garner is an incredible actor.

02:18So, I kind of did as much research as I could.

02:21And when you get to the root of what type of accent she's using,

02:25it does sound fairly accurate for what she's trying to do.

02:30So, at the end of the day, as crazy as it seems at first,

02:33because it almost feels satirical the way she's going about it,

02:37I was like, yeah, she's actually doing a great job.

02:40And we know that Julia Garner has it.

02:42We've seen it countless times, of course, in Ozark.

02:45But I've wanted to see her lead her own series for a while now.

02:49And this feels like the perfect vehicle for her to give us

02:52the type of sociopath-like madness that we need from a character like this,

02:56continuing to tell people, well, I can get money from my father.

02:59Don't worry.

02:59I will get the money from my father.

03:01But at the end of the day,

03:02she comes from a working class-like background,

03:04which makes it feel like she's almost rejecting what her parents stood for,

03:09and going for that American dream by not working for that American dream.

03:14So, there are a lot of elements at play when you just look at her character.

03:18But then we get into the life of our investigator,

03:21and, again, that relationship that she forms with Anna,

03:23but also going around interviewing these individuals

03:26that continue to paint a different picture about Anna.

03:30Everyone sees her as a different person.

03:32And as we get deeper into this investigation,

03:35she sees, we find out that, yeah, even going on Instagram,

03:39you can see that she is a different person everywhere she goes.

03:43And then as we put these clues together,

03:45and I won't say how or what exactly the clues are,

03:48we begin to uncover this mystery along with what is kind of a co-title character.

03:54And that worked out great, right?

03:55The idea is to look at Anna as somewhat of an anti-hero character, right?

04:00She's being painted as one thing by the story itself,

04:03but Julia Garner is playing her in such a likable way,

04:07and that has to come across.

04:08It's a tough tightrope to walk, and she does it almost effortlessly.

04:12And she is the main reason why I found so much enjoyment from aspects of this series.

04:18Now, the show as a whole,

04:19Vivian interviewing Anna's friends, her victims,

04:22seeing the stories from their experiences,

04:25spending a lot of time on the idea of these supposedly smart individuals,

04:30and some of them, they're in financial crisis.

04:32Others, they just kind of get swindled by what she says

04:36because she makes them believe by who she knows,

04:39but she only knows those people because she's being introduced by other people

04:43that she has swindled, creating a web of lies,

04:47and somehow continuing to convince these very wealthy individuals

04:52that she belongs there and deserves to be there.

04:55Now, for a show to make us believe that they are believing her lies,

04:59it's going to take some creative writing,

05:00and I'm not entirely sure if it was fully up to the task of that.

05:04There are occasional moments within the series

05:07that just spend too much time on the less personal aspects of the characters,

05:13getting into more so, you know, what my business is,

05:16what I'm trying to do myself,

05:18as opposed to the constant manipulation from Anna.

05:21I almost wanted to explore her psyche more so than we did.

05:25Instead, we're exploring the surrounding characters,

05:28kind of how they're feeling about the situation,

05:30but we never fully dive into Anna on the level that I wanted to.

05:35You see her emotions,

05:36you see that she truly cares about some of the people that she's swindling,

05:39but at the end of the day,

05:41she's getting her way for a reason,

05:43and I would have liked maybe a better exploration through this screenplay.

05:47And then the character of Vivian,

05:48she's trying to bring back her image in that industry,

05:51and she's a very easy character to root for,

05:54but the show spends a ton of time on her,

05:58and that takes away from what was so good and so interesting about Anna.

06:04In a way, it's good that we're getting an insight into her relationships,

06:07and every time Anna says something that just completely pisses her off,

06:10she can go and vent.

06:12But, you know, again, it was just,

06:14it was a hard thing to balance

06:15because you have two very intriguing main characters,

06:17but obviously one side of the story,

06:20this catch-me-if-you-can-like,

06:22very, at times, thrilling type story

06:26because you're constantly wondering how she's doing what she's doing,

06:30that could have used a bit more.

06:33And maybe telling the story in the

06:35I'm-going-to-interview-someone-and-then-see-these-flashbacks type form

06:39hurt it at the end of the day

06:41because it took away from the parts that we were enjoying the most.

06:45Anna is fearless.

06:45She's full of emotion.

06:46She occasionally gets moody.

06:48She lashes out and has to kind of control herself at the end of the day.

06:52What she is doing seems sporadic,

06:54but at the same time, it's so manipulative

06:56and, in that sense, kind of brilliant.

07:00Obviously, we don't want to look at it as that.

07:01But, yeah, I mean, she is successfully swindling.

07:05I keep using that word.

07:06The tender swindler.

07:07That's a documentary from last week.

07:09She's swindling a lot of people out of their money,

07:11and it's working, and it continues to work.

07:14So, how did she end up where she ended up?

07:17Well, that's for you to find out.

07:19So, tonally and script-wise, I think that's where it could have been more consistent.

07:23I didn't know how to feel at certain moments.

07:25Am I supposed to be laughing?

07:26Am I supposed to feel a lot for these characters through their emotion that they're displaying?

07:30Regardless, you're in this for the central performance.

07:34Julia Garner is giving an outstanding, once I got on board with everything,

07:38an outstanding performance, and I'm so glad she got the opportunity to lead this show.

07:44And the story itself is, overall, fascinating.

07:48Before I give you guys my score, let me know,

07:50what did you think of Inventing Anna?

07:51Have you binged this entire series?

07:53And if you enjoyed this video and you want to support this channel,

07:56be sure to drop your thumbs up down below.

07:58While the focus of the series isn't always consistent, the story itself is fascinating.

08:03Garner plays her in a way that makes it impossible to look away every time she's on screen.

08:08And because of that, I'm going to 70% with my score.

08:11I thought, overall, this series did what it was trying to do,

08:14and there's definitely some entertainment.

08:17If you like that kind of movie, like I said before, catch me if you can.

08:21A very interesting type of investigative mystery.

08:24Appreciate you guys for watching.

08:25Stay tuned.

08:26Let me know, what should I review next?

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