Inventing Anna (TV Program)
Emmy 2022 Snubs and Surprises: ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘This Is Us’ and More
Amid the mostly business-as-usual announcement of the 2022 Emmy Awards nominees — get ready to be sick of hearing “Succession” and “Ted Lasso” called out on Sept. 12 — there were some slightly unexpected occurrences. Nothing was as shocking as last year’s nomination of “Emily in Paris” for outstanding comedy, but there were some noticeable […]
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Anna Sorokin on ‘Inventing Anna’ and Life After Rikers
The release of “Inventing Anna,” a nine-part Netflix series created by Shonda Rhimes, has brought the case of Anna Sorokin back into the spotlight. Ms. Sorokin, 31, lived for several years in the 2010s as Anna Delvey, a wealthy German heiress of her own invention, convincing members of Manhattan’s elite to finance her fine dining […]
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Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong)
Sometimes the outfits weren’t processed by Rikers in time for court, resulting in fashion meltdowns as she rejected subpar substitutes, one day delaying the court proceedings for almost an hour and a half. I once spotted a bag in the courtroom filled with wardrobe rejects, including a flurry of long sleeves and collared shirts, a […]
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‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length
The article that made the serial scammer Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, famous, published in New York magazine in May 2018, succeeded because of what it didn’t have. Despite the extensive reporting done by its author, Jessica Pressler, the most arresting thing about it was a sense of unknowability. Its portrait of the habits of […]
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Winter TV: 20 Shows You Might Not Know Already
Thanks partly to the vagaries of Covid-19, there is an unusually large amount of prestige hitting the television schedule over the next three months — critical and audience favorites making triumphant returns after varying lengths of time. The safe and easy thing to do with a winter preview would be to fill it with those […]
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