Inventing Anna | The scammer wears Prada

You are bored of the jerky dialogues of Scandalits carefully chosen Motown music, Olivia Pope’s chic long coats and heart-pounding storylines that mixed politics, money and, duh, scandal?

Answers: yes, yes, yes and yes. Because Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) excelled at her job as a gladiator. She solved problems by speaking quickly, quickly, without breathing. It was his job. Arrange. Full. Things. And drink red wine from the balloon.

You will find this splashing spirit — and several actors of Scandal — in the new miniseries Inventing Anna, Anna’s Invention in French, available on Netflix. Superproducer Shonda Rhimes, behind popular soap operas Bridgerton, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murdersign Inventing Annaa miniseries inspired by the true story of a young hustler who defrauded influential members of the New York jet set.

Who says Shonda Rhimes, says invigorating pop music, seductive bling-bling and strong female characters. thereupon, Inventing Anna does not disappoint.

It’s colorful, frivolous, fun and rhythmic. It’s like leafing through a beautiful glossy magazine. But it’s less punchy than Scandal and less catchy than How to Get Away With Murder.

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It is still quality entertainment, which pits two women as fascinating as they are intelligent. On one side is Anna Delvey (Julia Garner, seen in ozark), born Anna Sorokin, who describes herself as a wealthy German heiress, always dressed in Prada or Alexander McQueen, huge smoked glasses placed on her nose.

In the other, there is the muddled journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky, seen in Veep and The summer of my 11 yearslet’s not forget), whose career has been in a bad way since the publication of an article full of falsehoods.

When the police lock up scammer Anna Delvey in 2017, Vivian sees it as the perfect story to stage her own redemption. Anna tricked, with disconcerting, borderline embarrassing ease, bankers, art dealers, renowned architects, hoteliers, and leading ladies of New York’s elite. By exposing the flaws of these powerful personalities, Vivian dims the light on her own mistakes.

But the enigmatic Anna, cultured, charming and cunning, will prove an extremely difficult subject to pin down. The reporter Vivian will visit Anna several times in prison to convince her to tell her version of this preposterous affair, which takes us to Paris fashion week, to a splendid house in the Hamptons and on a yacht in Ibiza.

Supported by the veterans of her magazine, Vivian, very pregnant, will become obsessed with Anna, her Instagram feed and her indecipherable accent. The reverse will also happen. Anna and Vivian need each other to clear their reputations. Who will crack first?

Inventing Anna derives from a long report by journalist Jessica Pressler, which was published in 2018 in the New YorkMagazine. Except for a few details, the characters you see in the nine-episode series all still exist. So it’s easy — and very tempting — to google Anna Sorokin to find out how she charmed so many important people between 2013 and 2017.

To paraphrase the feisty Olivia Pope, don’t! It would be a mistake. A serious mistake. A serious mistake that will follow you. For. The. Stay. Of your. Life.

StarAc : the exit for Jeremy?

Not an easy week for Jérémy Plante Star Academy, who will sing (again) on Sunday evening to remain in TVA’s musical reality show. And it smells of elimination for him.

First, the 25-year-old Lévisien, discovered in MixMania 2, did not take well the criticism of the teachers, who want to break it and who are relentless on his case, according to him. Then, after the announcement of his endangerment, Jérémy attacked the performance of his comrade Sandrine, who “did not say the right words” and who had “a great accent” in English. As one well-travelled gossip site would put it: “Quebec public didn’t digest little Jérémy’s mean comments and here’s why.”

Gregory Charles, even better this year, was firm and fair towards the controversial academician, who sang out of tune often during the last gala, it had to be said. That’s why I love the daily life of Star Academy : the honesty of Gregory Charles and Lara Fabian. These two tell the truth constructively, never mean-spiritedly. In short, congratulations for these certainly hard, but enriching lessons.

There has been a flood of tears in Waterloo this week. We really felt the fragility of the competitors (everyone is crying) and the pressure that rests on their shoulders. It is indeed big, what the academicians live. And stressful.

For the moment, Nostradumas is betting on Éloi Cummings, 16, and Audrey-Louise Beauséjour, 23. However, everything can change Star Academy. You can’t always be good, you have to be good when it’s time, said René Angélil. It’s always true.