The Amalfi coast, a luxury hotel and a man whose sole task is to solve problems. Sun, sea, good food, refined clothes, but also suspicious deaths, disappearances, the kidnapping of dogs for extortion purposes, the traffic of archeological finds... "Where criminals are as spectacular as the views", states the subtitle of Hotel Costiera, the new Italian Original series from Prime Video, available on the global platform from 24 September. And indeed, in this 6-episode series fully produced in Italy but shot entirely in English and with an international cast (directed by Emmy-winner Adam Bernstein and Giacomo Martelli), the location and its wonders play an essential part. The human variety that dwells there does, too: tourists, local families, Italians, foreigners, small criminals, aristocrats, beautiful women and street urchins.

As we said, there is a man who solves every problem. He is interpreted by American actor Jesse Williams (star of Grey's Anatomy, also acting as executive producer here). His name is Daniel De Luca, he's an ex-marine of Neapolitan origins, with a troubled past, who returns to the places of his childhood after many years. He works as a fixer in a magnificent seaside hotel in Positano, where the wealthy customers, and not only them, turn to him for the most diverse reasons: from an alleged murder to the search for a lost cat. Each episode has its case to be solved, and one that traverses and evolves through the whole season: Alice (Amanda Campana), the daughter of the hotel's owner, Augusto Caetani (Tommaso Ragno) and younger sister to Adele (Maria Chiara Giannetta), has been missing for a month. Daniel is tasked with finding her, and her few traces take him to Naples, where the former soldier will face dangerous people as well as himself and his own identity. 

Written by Elena Bucaccio, Matthew Parkhill and Francesco Arlanch, Hotel Costiera mixes action and comedy, crime and good sentiments, in a light, easily enjoyable drama that has all the ingredients of pure platform entertainment. As for the cast, other than the fascinating protagonist and the members of the Caetani family, there are Antonio Gerardi as the picturesque Bignè, a former criminal who manages the most famous bar on the coast; the Brits Sam Haygarth and Jordan Alexandra, who form with Bignè formano the sympathetic group that helps Daniel solve his cases; and, amongst others, Spanish actress Alejandra Onieva and French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade. The cinematography by Alessandro Pesci (Silver Ribbon for We Have a Pope [+lee también:
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Hotel Costiera is based on an idea by Luca Bernabei, who produces it via Lux Vide, a company of the Fremantle group, in co-production with Amazon MGM Studios. All six episodes will be launched on 24 September exclusively on Prime Video in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Denmark and Norway, and in Great Britain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.