‘Portobello’

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Fabrizio Gifuni played an unjustly disgraced TV host in “Portobello.”Credit...Anna Camerlingo/HBO Max

This mini-series recounts the story of Enzo Tortora, an enormously popular TV host in Italy whose career was ruined in the 1980s when he was falsely accused of being a member of the Camorra, an Italian crime syndicate.

“Today, assaulting a reputation with lies and innuendo is easily accomplished,” Hale writes. “It was not such a simple matter four decades ago, and the Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio has devoted six episodes and more than six hours to dramatizing all the confounding, astounding, heartbreaking details of Tortora’s story.”

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