The eight-episode drama kicks off with the 1868 funeral of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the first Lord Mayor of Dublin and the man responsible for making his family brewery a household name. As his funeral procession makes its way through the city, members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood – a group of Irish men and women fighting for independence – attack the convoy, only to be brutally quashed by the Guinness family’s enforcer, Sean Rafferty (Happy Valley‘s James Norton, who has gone back to his villainous roots).
James Norton as Sean Rafferty (Photo: Ben Blackall/Netflix)
Benjamin had four children – Arthur (Anthony Boyle), Edward (Louis Partridge), Anne (Emily Fairn), and Benjamin (Fionn O’Shea), none of whom seem particularly cut up about the departing of their dear father. Perhaps because his death makes them the richest people in Ireland… depending on what he’s left them in the will, of course.
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The rest of the series pivots around actual historical events – Arthur’s attempt to stand in an election, Anne’s philanthropic work with the poor post-famine – but factuality is a mere framework for Knight to play with. Much more interesting are the forays into the rumours surrounding the Guinnesses, from Arthur’s sexuality to Rafferty’s dalliances with more than one of the family.
Niamh McCormack as Ellen Cochrane (Photo: Ben Blackall/Netflix)There’s a very good argument to dismiss Knight’s work as too same-y. And yes, House of Guinness does bear the same hallmarks that made Peaky Blinders such a TV behemoth – the rollicking soundtrack, the swaggering anti-heroes hiding their emotions under a mask of hyper masculinity, the push and pull between the down and out everyday folk and the capitalists who would throw them under the bus. Some may have tired of this boisterous schtick – but I’m certainly still on board.
‘House of Guinness’ is streaming on Netflix
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