Ahead of Hotel Portofino's Season 3 finale, we sat down with star Natascha McElhone, who plays Bella Ainsworth, to talk about her character's arc this season.
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.
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.
