There’s something rotten in the state of new media. But then, mass-market decadence usually is. Premiering on Netflix next week, Shonda Rhimes’s Inventing Anna is a lavishly produced nine-episode limited series starring Julia Garner as Anna Sorokin, the convicted fraudster who lived large on borrowed credit cards before doing prison time for a host of felonies, most notably grand larceny.
Sorokin is also a former friend of mine. We first met in 2016, about six years into my job as a photo producer at Vanity Fair, while out in New York one evening with friends who introduced us.
