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The best TV shows and films based on real-life stories - from The Crown to Hustlers

From The Crown to Hustlers, here are the best films and TV shows based on true events

Woman & Home · Oct 20, 2024

'Girlboss' scammer shows are everywhere. Which ones should you watch?

For the last few years, scammers and corporate con men and women (but especially women) who tricked America's elites have captured headlines. But in the last few months, the most prominent ones got the Hollywood treatment from major streaming sites: swindler-socialite Anna Sorokin in Netflix's "Inventing Anna," famous fraudster Elizabeth…

Tribune News Service · May 10, 2022

Cheating the audience: what went wrong with Inventing Anna?

The Netflix series on ‘Soho grifter’ Anna Delvey is at once overlong and underwhelming

The Guardian - US · Feb 16, 2022

Review: 'Inventing Anna's' greatest failure: It's as shallow as its subject

From "Fyre Fraud" to "The Tinder Swindler," con artists and their schemes have provided an endless font of material for television docuseries. No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. But in the spirit of fixing something that's…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 11, 2022