Netflix announces new eight episode ‘epic’ about the Guinness family

by TheDirtyBollox

18 comments
  1. I wonder will they go into the religion side of things to illustrate how they only employed protestants up until the 70’s…

  2. Epic scenes?

    I’m actually looking forward to this, not enough Earls on the telly these days.

  3. Meh. The Guinnesses aren’t half as interesting as they seem to think they were.

  4. The truth would be a marketing disaster for Guinness

  5. Kinda hope this will be good, if only for the paroxysms it will cause on this sub

  6. Should make one about Jameson. One of them went off painting in a jungle and paid for a girl to be eaten while he watched.

  7. Wait until you guys find out Arthur Guinness was a staunch unionist and Guinness was known as “The Black Protestant porter” for a hundred years.

    That will upset your Irish identity if you heavy associate Guinness with it. 😂😂

  8. Showrunner is Steven Knight who made Peaky Blinders & All The Light We Cannot See. This should be good

  9. Know it’s set in the 19th century but the more recent generation would make for decent telly too.

    Garech Browne seemed like a fairly eccentric fella, and was big in the 60s rock and Irish folk scene.

    Moira off Schitt’s Creek is inspired by Daphne Guinness, so she must be some headbanger.

  10. You could see a history of Ireland throughout the 18th-20th century using the Guinness family and brand as a prism to use. Not sure from the brief description it’ll be like that.

  11. The cream of south Dublin actors will be cast in this hai

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