Hotel Portofino
Set in the beautiful backdrop of the Italian riviera in the late 1920s, Hotel Portofino tells the story of matriarch Bella Ainsworth, who wants her eponymous hotel to be a home away from home for wealthy English travelers. As well as demanding guests, she struggles to contend with an errant husband, and being blackmailed by the local fascist politician.
- 2022-2024
- 3 seasons
- PBS
- Drama
- TV-14
Set in the beautiful backdrop of the Italian riviera in the late 1920s, Hotel Portofino tells the story of matriarch Bella Ainsworth, who wants her eponymous hotel to be a home away from home for wealthy English travelers. As well as demanding guests, she struggles to contend with an errant husband, and being blackmailed by the local fascist politician.
Season 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2023
Episode 1
Returns
Sun, Oct 15, 2023 52 mins
Bella's plans to build a spa hit a budget snag. The hotel faces an inspection and an old acquaintance unexpectedly returns.
Episode 2
Alliances
Sun, Oct 22, 2023
As Cecil tries to buy his way back into Bella's affections, and Lucian and Constance acknowledge their mutual attraction, Nish aims to strike a blow against Mussolini's Fascists.
Episode 3
Comings Together
Sun, Oct 29, 2023
*Anish Sengupta is badly wounded after the failed bombing, yet devoted to his revolutionary lover Gianluca Bruzzone, smuggled back from Turin to a kinsman's cottage. Danioni launches a fascist manhunt, but Billy helps Lucian, Constance and Bella find and rescue his friend, who remains loyal to Gianluca, but faking an affair may have started one between Lucian and Constance. Cecil is shocked to find the American customer Danioni found for his family whiskey distillery demands much more, and is a mobster 'not to be told no, ever'. Caught between poverty, ambition and Fascist corruption, Bella accepts Cecil's help to expand the hotel, with 'red' architect Marco Bonacini and count Carlo Albani as middleman.
Episode 4
Contortions
Sun, Nov 5, 2023
Rose and Alice spring surprises on their returns to Portofino, and Cecil schemes to take control of the Hotel, while Bella thinks she has discovered the inspector's identity.
Episode 5
Subterfuges
Sun, Nov 12, 2023
Lucian is in no mood for sex with his fiancee Rose, each having another lover, but Constance may have to return home to assist an ailing relative unable to do her job as housekeeper after an accident. Cecil and Vincenzo Danioni stage the mayor playing greedy tricks to convince Bella she must sign over control of the hotel, but she overhears the plot and concocts with a lawyer. Cecil is amused to meet her beau in Genua, Danioni promises the US mobster sufficient supply of spirits. The inauguration of the new casino provides the perfect opportunity, as all socialites and fascists attend, for Lucian to meet Gianluca and instruct him to evacuate Nish.
Episode 6
Farewells
Sun, Nov 19, 2023
During the big casino night, as an act of masculine bravado threatens its future, Bella acts decisively to salvage her investment in the Hotel Portofino, but at what cost?
