26 September 2025 - "House of Guinness": A Netflix series about the Guinness family
The True Story Behind House of Guinness
Olivia B. Waxman (TIME magazine, 25/09/2025)
The eight-part series follows the four adult children of the Guinness brewery’s patriarch Benjamin Guinness—once the wealthiest man in Ireland—as they navigate running the popular brewery and the family’s properties after his death in 1868 amid clashes between Catholics and Protestants. The depiction of the Guinnesses is based on stories passed down in the family as recalled by Ivana Lowell, an executive producer.
House of Guinness on Netflix review: Wildly unfaithful retelling is like Succession with shillelaghs
Ed Power (Irish Times, 25/09/2025)
Netflix has pitched House of Guinness (Netflix, from Thursday) as a sort of Succession with shillelaghs. It begins with the death, in 1868, of Benjamin Guinness, grandson of the brewery’s founder, Arthur Guinness. As with the acclaimed HBO show, the story is driven by his dysfunctional children, all of whom have various designs on his beer empire.
A beer historian pores over the real story behind Netflix’s beer-soaked family drama ‘House of Guinness’
Cody Mello-Klein (Northeastern Global News, 24/09/2025)
Grab your pint glass and settle in: Netflix is dropping another historical, and this time it’s less “Bridgerton” balls and more Guinness pours and family squabbling.
Netflix's 'House of Guinness' touches on important LGBTQ history
(Sky News, 26/09/2025)
Anthony Boyle who plays Arthur Guinness - the closeted eldest son of the Guinness patriarch - says 'House of Guinness' explores a vital element of LGBTQ history.
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