A Netflix series about a family of brewmasters, a cool crime series set in Italy and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut top our roundup of what to watch this weekend.
“House of Guinness”: Steven Knight, the creator of gritty fare such as “Peaky Blinders” and “Taboo,” brews up an irresistible historical soap opera series — a la HBO’s “Succession” — about the squabbling and scheming siblings behind one of the world’s most quaffable products.
The power struggle comes to a, ahem, head when the patriarch of the influential beer-making Guinness family dies in 19th-century Dublin, creating a sibling showdown between the eldest Arthur (Anthony Boyle), the conniving Edward (Louis Partridge of “Disclaimer”), the passed-over-in-the-will Anne Plunket (Emily Fairn) and the hot mess of a youngest