House of Guinness is a sweary affair with some stellar performances

Clichés and unrealistic scenes won’t stop the glossy Netflix show from reeling in the viewers

Anthony Boyle (left) and Louis Partridge in House of Guinness. Photo: Netflix

It is difficult to describe Netflix’s House of Guinness . One of its slogans reads “Trouble is brewing,” and it is true that there is a lot of trouble here.

On the plus side, it is not every day that you see the construction of social housing as a theme in a TV drama; social housing is even used here as an instrument of courtship. It is not every day either that you see a very handsome hero taking water samples from a river to make sure that the water is not poisoned.

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