The Art of Sarah review: Korea just made its own version of Inventing Anna and we need to talk about it!

If catfishing and people swindling money is the kind of content you love then Netflix’s 'The Art of Sarah' might just be the thing for you!

The Art of Sarah review: There’s just something about women conning the elite that has the whole world hooked to stories like this! A few years ago, we had the internet talking about the real life story of Inventing Anna. How a woman from Russia conned the who’s who of upper west side New York will never not be a chilling story of the extent a person can go to for gaining fame and money! The Art of Sarah works on similar lines but the only re-assuring fact is that it is not based on a true story.

Just like Inventing Anna, this series revolves around a woman who calls herself ‘Sarah Kim’ played by the one and only Shin Hye-Sun. The series starts with her being found dead inside a sewer in one of Korea’s most luxurious neighbourhoods and works backwards to how she really ended up in this situation. As we, and detective Park Mu-Gyeong (Lee Jun- Hyuk), uncover the life of a person who does not even exist on paper, we find out all the sinister deeds she has made along the way to reach the fate that she eventually does. In today’s world where a person’s worth is determined by the luxury products they own and questioning if they’ve resorted to buying fakes for mere status symbols, this one really hits you hard with how vain we’ve become as a society. Sarah Kim’s so-called luxury bag brand ‘Boudoir’ and how she fools people into thinking it's real, shows how we’re looking to fixate on what’s the next best thing and own it before someone else can.

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It requires guts and a whole lot of smartness to con the chaebols of Korea and point out loop holes after loop holes in a detective’s investigation who has decided to hunt you down. The cat and mouse chase between the two makes this eight episode series an interesting binge. Although, the answers that we want to seek as audiences are left open ended, making one feel like the chase indeed was all for nothing. But the highlight here isn’t uncovering her truth, it is the sheer guts she has to make an absolutely impossible and unrealistic con come true. The moral for me wasn’t that I shouldn’t con people but it was in fact that I cannot because I have a conscience and it takes someone like a Sarah Kim or Inventing Anna who were born without one! 

All episodes of The Art of Sarah are currently streaming on Netflix!