Anyone who loves a good true story about a glamorous con woman is in for a good few weeks. The Dropout, following the case of Elizabeth Holmes and the fall of her company Theranos, stars Amanda Seyfried and lands on Hulu in early March. But in the meantime, Inventing Anna has arrived on Netflix to keep you going.

This is the story of Anna Delvy, or Anna Sorokin, played by Julie Garner, a woman who posed as a wealthy heiress and fooled high class New York society, including rinsing a number of people for considerable amounts of money. The show is framed via the journalist who is building a story about Delvy’s case after she’s due to stand trial. This character is named Vivian Kent, played by Anna Chlumsky. At the start of each episode, Inventing Anna proudly states that the story is completely true except for all...