Inventing Anna
Dangerously Close
TV Flash files “Dangerously Close” as a desk essential hour — Inventing Anna (2022) on Netflix, season 1, episode 9, aired 2022-02-11, 83 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E09: listed hour 9 of 9 in the Inventing Anna guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 2022-02-11 (83 min). The listed hour before it is “Too Rich for Her Blood” (S01E08). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Dangerously Close”. Dangerously Close as the nine-episode close: Soho House cosplay completed, journalist frame still the other con, still a performance you can rent.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Anna obsesses over her trial style as Vivian covers the proceedings, Rachel takes the stand and defense lawyer Todd implores his client to cooperate.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dangerously Close sit in the Inventing Anna guide?
S01E09 is listed hour 9 of 9 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 9.
When did Inventing Anna S01E09 air?
Dangerously Close aired 2022-02-11 and is listed at 83 minutes.
Is it a limited series?
Yes, 2022. Fake heiress, journalist frame, complete con — not an open scammer universe.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Shondaland scammer chic: Julia Garner as fake heiress Anna Delvey, conning New York on borrowed clothes and borrowed German. True-crime-adjacent event television about class as a performance you can rent. Watch for the accent debates, the Soho House cosplay, and a journalist frame that asks why we needed the story to be fabulous.
The first cut is borrowed clothes doing the work of a birth certificate. Shonda Rhimes's Inventing Anna, 2022 on Netflix, puts Julia Garner as Anna Delvey — fake German heiress, borrowed German, class as a performance you can rent — against Anna Chlumsky's Vivian Kent, a journalist unraveling how the con took New York society, with Arian Moayed's Todd in the orbit. True-crime-adjacent event television. Soho House cosplay. A journalist frame that asks why we needed the story to be fabulous. Scammer chic as…
Filed against
- Julia Garner as Anna Delvey
Julia Garner’s Ruth Langmore made Ozark a Missouri spitfire with a ledger — 2010s catalog lake-light cartel laundry, then Inventing Anna stretching the hunger into fake-heiress New York. TV Flash files her as the cousin who became a con,…
- Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent
Anna Chlumsky’s Amy Brookheimer burned out beautifully on Veep — staffer fury, loyalty, and insults as Olympic sport under Selina Meyer’s chaos. Emmy-nominated speed made political satire feel like a panic attack. TV Flash still needs a…
- Arian Moayed as Todd
Arian Moayed’s Todd walked Inventing Anna as Shondaland scammer-chic weather — Julia Garner’s fake heiress, borrowed clothes, borrowed German, class as a performance you can rent. True-crime-adjacent event television, Soho House cosplay,…