Netflix’s new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has jumped up the charts of the most watched content on the platform.
Released on 25 September, House of Guinness chronicles the fate of the Irish family brewery in the wake of the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man who kickstarted its success.
The series follows Benjamin’s adult children, Arthur (Anthony Boyle), Edward (Louis Partridge), Anne (Emily Fairn), and Benjamin (Fionn O’Shea), grappling with the loss of their father and the responsibilities of the family company.
The quartet is joined by a cohort of other characters, including Guinness foreman Sean Rafferty (James Norton) and Edward’s wife Adelaide (Ann Skelly).
House of Guinness has debuted to big viewership numbers and positive reviews, securing the number one in Ireland and the UK since its first day of release.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the eight-part drama is Certified Fresh with a rating of 87% out of 31 reviews.
Critics have addressed the unavoidable comparisons with Knight’s Peaky Blinders, as well as other shows centred on powerful, if dysfunctional, families, while highlighting the new series’ own qualities.
“House of Guinness is full of intense confrontations and unexpected complications — and anyone who enjoyed Peaky Blinders, or Succession, or The Gilded Age, should find House of Guinness very satisfying to watch,” NPR wrote in their review.
