It was painful to watch Inventing Anna. The accent was nails on the chalkboard irritating and Julie Garner would "lose it" a lot during the series. The characters were unbelievably vapid, uninteresting and the writing was sitcom-ish. I heard Shondra Rhimes was a good writer...if so, it doesn't show here. If making New York society look pathetic and completely lame was the goal, it was pretty much the only real accomplishment regarding this show. I really wanted to like this because I loved Julie Garner in Ozark, but I can't...this is just really awful.