Home of Guinness has been slammed for getting “all of it incorrect”.
The collection, which launched on Thursday (25.09.25) on Netflix, stars James Norton, Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge as a part of the brewing clan the Guinnesses, however a real-life descendant of the household has now accused it of being stuffed with inaccuracies and stereotypes.
Writing in The Occasions, writer Molly Guinness, a direct descendant of the brewing household, mentioned she felt “righteous fury” watching the present and hit out at a homosexual storyline within the present.
She wrote: “I grew increasingly more indignant… my great-great grandfather Edward and his brother Arthur (had been turned) into knaves and fools.”
Molly mentioned the portrayal of Sir Benjamin implied he was merciless to his youngsters, however in actuality he was a “loving father”.
She added Arthur’s “homosexual exploits” had been “invented”, whereas Anne and Edward’s love tales had been “inappropriate”.
She mentioned: “All of the characters come straight from a bingo card of contemporary clichés round wealthy folks.”Created by Steven Knight, the interval drama is ready in Nineteenth-century Dublin and New York and opens with the dying of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness.
Its narrative follows his heirs – Arthur, Edward, Anne and Ben – as they navigate household rivalries and political turmoil.
Netflix presents it as “impressed by true tales”, however reviewers have additionally taken situation with its historic liberties.
And reviewers within the Irish press have additionally been essential.
Within the Irish Star, one author mentioned James Norton’s accent as Sean Rafferty was “extra Darby O’Gill than 1800s Dublin”, including: “5 episodes in, there’s one factor that retains pulling me away from the motion – James Norton’s accent.”
In The Irish Occasions, Ed Energy wrote Steven Knight’s “understanding of Eire below colonialism is rudimentary”, lamenting the collection was filmed in Liverpool relatively than Eire.
He mentioned the present was a “wildly untrue retelling” and likened Norton’s character to a “steampunk Mr Tayto”.
Ann Marie Hourihane, writing within the Irish Unbiased, referred to as the manufacturing “boring and predictable”, although she praised Jack Gleeson’s efficiency as Byron Hughes.
The Irish Examiner described the drama as “all pour, no pint”, with reviewer Pat Fitzpatrick concluding: “Opulent and dramatic… all of the containers are ticked. Besides the one marked leisure.”
The present additionally encompasses a modern soundtrack together with music from Fontaines D.C. and Kneecap. Regardless of the backlash, Home of Guinness has acquired robust opinions within the UK.
Roland White of the Each day Mail gave it 4 stars, calling it a “fast-moving opener”.
Jack Seale in The Guardian awarded 5 stars, saying it had “smarts, coronary heart and critical intercourse attraction”, whereas James Jackson in The Occasions described it as a “rip-roaring saga” with echoes of Downton Abbey and Succession.
