Starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes, the former entrepreneur was convicted of criminal fraud after it was founded that her health technology Theranos deceived investors by “massive fraud” through false or exaggerated claims about the accuracy of the company’s blood-testing technology. households in its first four days streaming. Hulu’s The Dropout, which is based on the podcast of the same name that chronicles the real-life of disgraced biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, was watched by 499,000 U.S. ? 11% of those who watched #TheDropoutHulu also watched Inventing Anna.
Which streaming docudrama about a female fraudster drew higher viewership? Netflix series #InventingAnna saw 1.6M US households watch in its first 4 days, while Hulu's #TheDropout brought 499k.
The Netflix series, developed by Shonda Rhimes under her lucrative deal with the platform, has been one of the most talked-about binge-worthy series since its debut last month.
In 2017, she was arrested after defrauding or intentionally deceiving major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances in the United States for a total of $275,000. Played by Ozark’s Julia Garner on the series, Anna Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heiress under the name Anna Delvey between 20. households in its first four days, per Samba TV. Netflix’s Inventing Anna, a series that is inspired by the true story of Anna Sorokin, a Russian-German convicted con-artist and fraudster, was watched by 1.6 million U.S. Both Netflix and Hulu have recently dabbled in this business with Inventing Anna and The Dropout and it has so far paid off handsomely for the platforms, per Samba TV.
The buzzy series recently topped The Hollywood Reporter’s list of 2022’s most anticipated scripted shows.True crimes stories continue to be an obsession for the masses and that includes TV shows or films based on the crimes that made headlines. Rhimes acquired the rights to the story, amid a bidding war, and Inventing Anna marks her first Netflix show after signing her massive overall deal (though Bridgerton premiered first). And while I’m curious to see how they interpreted all the research and materials provided, I can’t help but feel like an afterthought, the somber irony of being confined to a cell at yet another horrid correctional facility lost between the lines, the history repeating itself.”ĭelvey’s story of posing as a German heiress with a $60 million trust fund and scamming New York’s socialite scene was made famous in a 2018 New York Magazine story “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” by Jessica Pressler. “Nearly four years in the making and hours of phone conversations and visits later, the show is based on my story and told from a journalist’s perspective. I imagined for the show to be a conclusion of sorts summing up and closing of a long chapter that had come to an end,” she says of her participation in the nine-episode limited series, which included prison visits from both Garner and Rhimes. “For a long while, I was hoping that by the time Inventing Anna came out, I would’ve moved on with my life. In the essay, Delvey, who calls herself the “ultimate unreliable narrator,” describes her experience in ICE general population, and now medical isolation - “They take away your choices and give you the worst, so next time you’ll think twice before stabbing your neighbor - or overstaying your visa,” she says - and recalls the unpleasant experience of collectively watching ABC’s 20/20 episode about her life while in detention. Even if I were to pull some strings and make it happen, nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me.” She clearly possesses the knowledge to do so and has failed to demonstrate remorse.”ĭelvey then segues to say, “So no - it doesn’t look like I’ll be watching Inventing Anna anytime soon. The immigration judge ruled, she writes, that, “even if released from detention and ordered to report regularly to ICE, the respondent would have the ability and inclination to continue to commit fraudulent and dishonest acts. “Did I mention I’m the only woman in ICE custody in this whole jail? Tell me I’m special without telling me I’m special,” she writes.ĭelvey explains that, despite paying off the restitution from her criminal case ( reportedly paid from the money she received from Netflix for her life rights, first paid out to victims under a New York law), she overstayed her visa while serving out her sentence. Back to the Future: Netflix Ad Push Has Echoes of Its DVD-by-Mail Era