Review Of Shonda Rhimes' 'Inventing Anna'

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00:00We have a big weekend coming up.

00:02People will obviously be tuning into the Super Bowl,

00:05even if it's just for the halftime show.

00:07But Roz and I have a prediction that we think everyone is going to be buzzing about

00:12that has nothing to do with football.

00:14It's a new Netflix series, Inventing Anna.

00:16This show is so bonkers.

00:18It's a series created by Shonda Rhimes,

00:20who, of course, is the mastermind behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal,

00:25and, of course, over on Netflix, the big giant hit, Bridgerton.

00:28Now, if you have not seen the trailer,

00:30yet, for Inventing Anna, this is it.

00:31Take a look.

00:33I might have a story.

00:35Her name is Anna Delvey.

00:36For Anna Sorokin, no one's short.

00:38She's either a rich German heiress or she's flat broke.

00:41The charges are insane.

00:43Anna committed real white-collar felonies

00:45while posing as a socialite in an attempt to steal millions of dollars.

00:51Hi, Anna.

00:52I just had some questions.

00:54I have a question.

00:56What's you wearing?

00:57You look poor.

01:00The series is based on the article How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People,

01:08written by Jessica Pressler.

01:10Now, it details how a fake German heiress named Anna Delvey

01:13caught New York City's elite out of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars.

01:17The article's dedication of uncovering the truth was what caught Shonda's eye,

01:24and she decided to write this series from the perspective of a journalist who is very,

01:30very loosely based on the real-life Jessica.

01:33Yeah, Jessica, of course, is a producer on the show.

01:35Now, I got to sit down with the cast this week and spoke with star Julia Garner about why she thinks people will be obsessed with Anna.

01:43I think people find Anna intriguing for multiple reasons, whether you love it or you hate it.

01:51I think people have, people are intrigued always by things that they love and they hate, you know,

01:58always things that are interesting or things that are contradicting itself.

02:02But, yeah, so to me, I think that's why people gravitate towards it.

02:09But I also think people gravitate towards it because I really think the story is about identity

02:14and the people struggling with their identity and how people in this, especially in this day and age,

02:23are not having an okay time being themselves, but pretending like they're okay being themselves

02:29because that's what they, you know, put on social media in a way.

02:36It's interesting.

02:37This show reminds me of when, remember when season one of Stranger Things was released?

02:44Mm-hmm.

02:44And it didn't matter what you had going on that weekend.

02:47Nobody really knew anything about it.

02:49You sort of had heard a little bit.

02:51But when it dropped, whatever you had going on that weekend when they dropped Stranger Things,

02:56it ruined everything.

02:57Everybody canceled their entire weekend when that show first dropped.

03:02Inventing Anna is going to do the same thing this weekend.

03:04People are going to be obsessed with, first of all, her accent, right?

03:08That is going to, people are going to be doing their own version of the Anna accent.

03:12But this will be your obsession on the weekend.

03:15Please believe us when we say do not plan for anything other than,

03:20and I know it's the Super Bowl on the weekend,

03:21you are going to try to get through Inventing Anna before Sunday.

03:26And I'm telling you, it's doable even though they're long episodes.

03:29You know, it's funny that you mentioned the accent,

03:31because unlike House of Gucci and Lady Gaga's accent,

03:36the way people were talking about that,

03:37people were talking about this because of the reasoning behind why the accent is the way that it is.

03:41Yes.

03:42Because she's trying to capture who this character was,

03:44who this real person is, I should say, Anna Sorokin, a real person.

03:47Yeah.

03:48And the idea that her heritage is unclear.

03:53So the accent is also unclear.

03:57Now, I don't know how familiar anybody out there is with the story.

03:59When it came out, it was a bit of a sensation,

04:01which is why this article was, or sorry, after this article was written,

04:04which is why the series came about.

04:07But everybody involved in the series that I talked to,

04:10whether they had read about it when it happened,

04:13or if they read about it because they were involved in the series,

04:15just got hooked on the whole idea of it, of this person.

04:19And Anna herself, as played by Julia Garner,

04:22is like this crazily magnetic figure.

04:28Yeah, it's definitely going to be worth watching.

04:29And I don't think people are going to have a hard time getting through it.

04:32No.

04:32It's just going to be like, you have to.

04:33No.

04:33You're going to watch it and go.

04:34It's so...

04:35It's like, you know, drink the water and go to the next thing.

04:38It's so delicious because the episodes,

04:41like these aren't 30-minute episodes.

04:42Like some of the episodes are hour plus.

04:44Sure, yeah.

04:45Right, and it's a series, but I will say...

04:47For anybody that spent any amount of time this week

04:51watching the Tinder Swindler, okay,

04:54that is like the perfect opening act for Inventing Anna.

04:59Like, Inventing Anna is going to be the headliner this weekend.

05:02The Tinder Swindler was the opening act,

05:04and it is this perfectly smooth transition.

05:07And I'm telling you right now,

05:08it's going to be your whole weekend.

05:10Like, plan for it.

05:11It's also got that air of mystery to it, too.

05:13I'm telling you, man, Sean the land didn't know how to do it.

05:15I love it.

05:15Yeah.

05:17Good morning.

05:18I love it.

05:18I like the end of the week.

05:19It's going to be your whole weekend.

05:20It's just going to be the end of the weekend.

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