Anyone watch The House of Guiness?

[Anonymous]

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It's giving Peaky Blinder vibes but also very weird story telling and can't stand the dark lightning. Interesting, and horrifying, view into Irish history. Fiction but based on true events so I'm sure there are a lot of liberties taken with the story. Overall IMO it's a good, not great watch. Interested in others reactions.

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Ugh I hate darkly lit shows. Thanks for the warning.

[Anonymous]

Extremely graphic and got slow/preachy towards the end but I really liked it. We watched it twice.

Normally I hate horror but there was something quite compelling about the family dynamics and the flashbacks were quite well done. Did not recognize Mark Hamill at all either as the consiglieri.

Never seen Peaky Blinders though.

[Anonymous]

Production budget seemed really low and the writing was atrocious. Sounded like an interesting concept but couldn’t make it past the first ep.

[Anonymous]

I got halfway through the second episode before giving up. The writing/acting is so bad. I don't mind the dark filming, and I think the visuals are really well done but the acting... I can't.

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My Irish friends hated it. Haven’t tried it yet.

[Anonymous]

I really liked it! The sets and costumes are amazing and I thought the cinematography on it was also really good. Acting is good, some of the scripting could be better but it’s not terrible.

There is one major plot point that drove me nuts. One character is gay and they make a big pint about how his wife needs to be aware of it and okay with it so they tell her before the engagement. This sreems to me utterly ridiculous. Lots of men in the 19th century were gay and no one ever told their wives! Upper class couples had separate bectokms and women weren’t supposed to like sex(plus most upper class marriages weeent love matches with passion) so many couples had very perfunctory sex lives that ended after sufficient offspring were generated. Affairs were expected so long as they were discrete. An upper class gay guy could hide forever with a no ask no tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Extremely graphic and got slow/preachy towards the end but I really liked it. We watched it twice.

Normally I hate horror but there was something quite compelling about the family dynamics and the flashbacks were quite well done. Did not recognize Mark Hamill at all either as the consiglieri.

Never seen Peaky Blinders though.

I think this poster is talking about a different show — maybe fall of the house of usher?

House of guiness is about 1868 Ireland and the inheritors of the guiness brewery. Very very loosely historical.
I would be interested to know what PP’s Irish friends hated about it. I have a general sense that the Irish hate anything that makes them look too “Irish” in a historical sense because so many Americans already have this frozen famine view of Ireland. Also I noticed that at least half the actors are British which is weird considering how many good Irish actors there are.

I really liked the music background — basically all Irish music with a mix of different styles.
There was on actor that really irritated me (the bastard cousins) but other than that I thought the acting was pretty good. Some ridiculousness but not as soapy as some of the other Netflix historical dramas (like the Spanish stuff which is ridiculously soapy).

[Anonymous]

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It's giving Peaky Blinder vibes but also very weird story telling and can't stand the dark lightning. Interesting, and horrifying, view into Irish history. Fiction but based on true events so I'm sure there are a lot of liberties taken with the story. Overall IMO it's a good, not great watch. Interested in others reactions.

Created by the same person, Steven Knight, so that tracks. I loved Peaky Blinders, so I was excited to learn of this. I've only watched the first episode so far... I feel like there's an interesting dynamic being set up, and the characters seem pretty complex, which is promising. I think my dislike of it is basically that it has "Peaky Blinder vibes", like you said, but isn't. It feels almost formulaic to me; even the poster/cover images look like PB with the characters swapped out...

He definitely has a template. I'm not sure I can get my brain to shift into this new iteration of it, but I'm going to keep watching.

[Anonymous]

I loved Peaky Blinders but I just couldn't get into this. The characters aren't compelling and the cast is bad. The music is wrong as well imo.

[Anonymous]

The US and British press have praised it highly but the Irish press are hating on it. They described James Norton's accent as "Steampunk Mister Tayto" but I have heard his accent and it is spot on. He worked with one of the world's best dialect coaches for a long time on it, precisely to get it right.

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Anonymous wrote:Extremely graphic and got slow/preachy towards the end but I really liked it. We watched it twice.

Normally I hate horror but there was something quite compelling about the family dynamics and the flashbacks were quite well done. Did not recognize Mark Hamill at all either as the consiglieri.

Never seen Peaky Blinders though.

I think this poster is talking about a different show — maybe fall of the house of usher?

House of guiness is about 1868 Ireland and the inheritors of the guiness brewery. Very very loosely historical.
I would be interested to know what PP’s Irish friends hated about it. I have a general sense that the Irish hate anything that makes them look too “Irish” in a historical sense because so many Americans already have this frozen famine view of Ireland. Also I noticed that at least half the actors are British which is weird considering how many good Irish actors there are.

I really liked the music background — basically all Irish music with a mix of different styles.
There was on actor that really irritated me (the bastard cousins) but other than that I thought the acting was pretty good. Some ridiculousness but not as soapy as some of the other Netflix historical dramas (like the Spanish stuff which is ridiculously soapy).

Oh true. For some reason it gave off Irish vibes in my memory. Thank you for the correction.

[Anonymous]

I love Daphne Guinness! Wish it was about the modern Guinnesses.

[Anonymous]

Watching it now. Not terrible but not Peaky blinders good

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Extremely graphic and got slow/preachy towards the end but I really liked it. We watched it twice.

Normally I hate horror but there was something quite compelling about the family dynamics and the flashbacks were quite well done. Did not recognize Mark Hamill at all either as the consiglieri.

Never seen Peaky Blinders though.

I think this poster is talking about a different show — maybe fall of the house of usher?

House of guiness is about 1868 Ireland and the inheritors of the guiness brewery. Very very loosely historical.
I would be interested to know what PP’s Irish friends hated about it. I have a general sense that the Irish hate anything that makes them look too “Irish” in a historical sense because so many Americans already have this frozen famine view of Ireland. Also I noticed that at least half the actors are British which is weird considering how many good Irish actors there are.

I really liked the music background — basically all Irish music with a mix of different styles.
There was on actor that really irritated me (the bastard cousins) but other than that I thought the acting was pretty good. Some ridiculousness but not as soapy as some of the other Netflix historical dramas (like the Spanish stuff which is ridiculously soapy).

Took me two episodes to remember that actor's name, and why something about him almost immediately got under my skin, more than just the character. He'll always be joffrey baratheon.