"Another show with that status is Peaky Blinders, writer Steven Knight's swaggering epic about a (real) Birmingham crime gang between the wars. What's unusual about the post-Blinders shows is that the author of the towering original has tended to write the pretenders to the throne himself: Knight sought to develop the formula earlier this year with A Thousand Blows, a series about a different historical crime gang, and with his new Netflix show House of Guinness, he seems to be mining the same seam."
"He introduces himself by issuing a rallying call to the company workers, exhorting them to crush an anti-Guinness street protest then leading the way himself, gleefully swinging a hunk of hard factory iron. Later on in episode one, when the Guinness cooperage is torched by malcontents, Rafferty walks into the blaze, impervious in a swishing long coat and with a clattering 21st-century rock soundtrack behind him, to sort it out."
House of Guinness is set in Dublin in 1868 and centers on the immensely wealthy Guinness family and the factory that dominates the city. Sean Rafferty, the factory manager, is an arch schemer whose currency is violence and who leads workers to crush anti-Guinness protests. The series foregrounds visceral physicality, from clanking chains and burning cooperages to a modern rock soundtrack that punctuates action. The Guinness patriarch Benjamin has died and none of his four adult children appear equipped to take over, creating an opening for Rafferty. The show echoes the swagger and formula of recent wry, period crime dramas.
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