Divorce, Deceit and Danioni are All Present in the Third Season Premiere of 'Hotel Portofino'
As viewers, we left Hotel Portofino and the glorious Italian Riviera in November 2023. Although less than a year has passed in our world, two years have gone by in the lives of the Ainsworth family. It is now 1929. Fascism is further on the rise, and we know the booming stock market can’t last long.
Bella ended last season by telling her husband Cecil that, to paraphrase Carrie Bradshaw, they were so over they needed a new word for over. The episode starts with Bella and Marco, the ever-sexy Italian architect, in bed. Immediately, we know that Bella has stayed true to her word and moved on from Cecil. Hooray!
Bella gets a visit from her father and her sister, Amelia. She hasn’t seen her sister, a widow, in six years. “You look older and a little worn down, if I’m being honest,” Amelia tells her. There is a lot of tension between the siblings. It appears Bella hasn’t even visited her sister since she went to London. For her part, Amelia refers to Hotel Portofino as a “fusty backwater.” When Bella tells her father that perhaps he shouldn’t be investing any of his money with Cecil’s stockbroker, he loses his temper with her.
