Julia Garner as Anna Delvey
(Picture: AARON EPSTEIN/NETFLIX)Scam season is upon us. Over the next few weeks, it seems that every streaming service worth its monthly subscription is offering us a different project based on buzzy real-life hustles, frauds, swindles and confidence tricks from the very recent past.
Disney+ has The Dropout, based on the podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and biotech start-up Theranos, arriving in March; a few weeks later comes Apple TV+’s WeCrashed, based on the implosion of WeWork (if not explicitly a scam, it’s certainly a cautionary tale about the Silicon Valley bubble and dubious financing). First out of the gate, though, is Inventing Anna, the Netflix series telling the story of fake heiress Anna Delvey (real name Anna Sorokin).
