House of Guinness

It's got good action and pace, the actors give a good performance and I like the scenery and music.

Whether it's accurate is irrelevant to me, if I want to watch period drama I'll watch Wolf Hall (excellent). This is dramatic and accessible with modern music and language. If that's not for you, watch something else.

The people complaining really do need to lighten up!

House of Guinness is a new show from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders). It has that same look and feel as PB. It's about the Guinness family after its founder dies in 1868 and leaves its empire in the hands of his four children, each with problems and secrets of their own. It may start slow for some but stay with it because after the first couple episodes it really picks up. It's a good period series about power, greed, betrayal and back stabbing. Bottom line is while House of Guinness isn't nearly as good as PB, it's still a pretty good show that's worth watching.

I was looking forward to this for a couple months when I saw it was from the creator of Peaky Blinders. It took a couple episodes to get into but once I did, I really enjoyed it. It looks like Peaky Blinders but that's about as far as similarities go and if you're not looking for a Peaky 2.0, you should enjoy it. I agree with other reviews though, the music does not fit it and I hope they change it in season two.

I really hate the modern music scores as the soundtrack for a period drama. It doesn't work and pulls you right out of the fantasy they're trying to create. I wish modern directors and producers realized this. Rule 101 of storytelling when you're playing in historical fiction -- do not use terms, music, etc that did not exist back then. Aside from the music, the word "Bonehead" was an Americanism that didn't even originate until the early 1900's and likely would not have been used in late 1800's Ireland. If you're doing a period drama - do it right. Don't keep pulling the viewer out of the story by introducing modern music and words. That is why I pulled three stars.

I was really curious about the Guinness family ever since I visited the Republic of Ireland and our tour guide told us that they were loved and respected by Irish people. Tbh until that they Guinness was just a beer brand to me which I really love and of course nobody can be loved by 100%. So watching their story with a good cinematography together with some good performers was enjoyable. And I am a sucker for sound of Irish flute, so I hyped whenever I heard it BUT I was really annoyed whenever I heard techno and rap music even though I mainly listen those two. Maybe the idea behind is to get attention from new gens but still it just ruined the atmosphere. My second dislike was the Netflix scenes. You know what I mean. The substance, the intimacy and the community which I really love everyone and everything BUT whenever Netflix includes these topics "nearly all the time" they just feel like ads and loose the meaning😔 Sorry for my English.