Netflix’s new historical drama from Steven Knight, House of Guinness , shows a lot of promise in its first season. Set in 19th century Dublin, the series follows four members of the Guinness family as they take over the now iconic brewery following their father’s death. Amid the turmoil of Ireland’s fight for independence, they’ll walk a perilous, political tightrope as they fight to make their beer – and their family name – into one of the most famous in the world.

House of Guinness is a gripping drama with a heady mix of style, sex, and violence that immediately brings to mind Knight’s other historical Netflix drama, Peaky Blinders . There are other similarities, with the business of running the Guinness brewery sometimes feeling not so different from the criminal enterprise

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