Given all that has transpired in Hotel Portofino Season 3, I’m sure none of us thought the third season finale would end happily. But this finale, entitled “Masquerades,” was a tragic punch to the gut all the same.
For a show that on the surface seems so idyllic (The sun! The Italian coast! The fashion!), Hotel Portofino's third season has been extraordinarily stressful. The season’s penultimate episode, “Revelations,” took no prisoners.
Somewhere south of the Bowery, near where the corner of Starbucks and Starbucks will one day stand, Wall Street crashes; 4,000 miles away, the reverberations hit Hotel Portofino like a tsunami.
In a twist for a series set in the beautiful Italian seacoast, Hotel Portofino's “Realizations” kicks off in New York, as the stock market crash of 1929 lurks on the horizon.
Marco seems to think that proposing to Bella will solve all their problems in Hotel Portofino's second episode of Season 3. But Bella knows things aren’t so simple for a woman in 1929.
We last left Hotel Portofino and the glorious Italian Riviera in November 2023. Although less than a year has passed in our world, two years have passed in the lives of the Ainsworth family, and it is now 1929.
