Her reputation’s coup de grâce in Inventing Anna’s crazy narrative arc? The fact that she had the audacity to give the life rights to her story to HBO-a particularly bizarre move to demonize given that Inventing Anna is itself an adaptation of a journalist’s story, and gleefully celebrates Sorokin’s constant fame-grabbing maneuvers across all 10 episodes. (Granted, no one with a WiFi connection is going to struggle to figure out who the “real” Vivian is, but the switch at least marginally distances Shondaland’s creation from Pressler in viewers’ minds.) Also featured prominently: Williams’s actual place of work ( Vanity Fair), the location of her apartment (the West Village), and her alma mater (Kenyon College). In contrast to New York’s Jessica Pressler, who’s reimagined as Vivian Kent of Manhattan magazine for the series, Williams is referred to by her actual name throughout. Inventing Anna does blur the lines between reality and fiction in a peculiar way-and this is where it gets into trouble, particularly when it comes to Rachel Deloache Williams, the real-life photo editor who joined Sorokin on her last-hoorah trip to Marrakech and ended up footing the nearly $70,000 bill. Except for all the parts that are totally made up.” It’s the not-quite disclaimer at the beginning of every installment that feels most misguided, though: “This whole story is completely true. The way that it makes a Celine-obsessed grifter out to be a 21st-century Jay Gatsby, with 281 Park Avenue standing in for Daisy Buchanan. The fact that most of the episodes are about 20 minutes longer than necessary. There’s a lot that’s aggravating about Inventing Anna.
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