‘A Steampunk Mr Tayto’: Perché i critici irlandesi odiano la casa di Guinness di Netflix | Irlanda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/irish-critics-netflix-series-house-of-guinness-ireland
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‘A Steampunk Mr Tayto’: Perché i critici irlandesi odiano la casa di Guinness di Netflix | Irlanda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/irish-critics-netflix-series-house-of-guinness-ireland
di OmmadonRising
26 commenti
A lot of Irish critics are knobs to be fair.
The show is feckin rubbish in all fairness…
The Brits. Never not at it.
it’s funny how something can change your views. I hated the first episode but a friend said they thought the show was great. I then enjoyed the rest of it.
I tried to watch it but turned it off after a few minutes. Something about the drunk brother waking up and throwing punches, that perpetuation of negative Irish stereotypes. Not to mention the dodgy plot point of the fenians, the dodgy accents… none of the siblings have the same accent? I couldn’t hack it
I’ve enjoyed it so far. It’s well shot and has a great soundtrack. It isn’t a documentary and not much use to a history teacher but it’s entertaining.
Am 2 episodes in. It’s funny but not on purpose. The illegitimate cousin is an actual leprechaun, It’s so so bad
Never made it to episode two. The show doesn’t seem to be able to decide what it wants to be: either an ad for Guinness / Diageo , a cross between Gangs of New York and Peaky Blinders, or Downton Abbey for people with no attention span.
An utter waste of time.
Turned it off after your man trying to ride the sister Guinness by talking about cat sex and comparing her to a horned black cat howling from the roof top.
I watched the first episode. My partner, who isn’t Irish, asked half way though “did they really dress like Leprechauns back then? I thought it was just a caricature.”. Later, “did Irish people really speak like that back then? They all sound like they’re reading poetry”. I kept my silence until then end. Summarised “well that was shite” and we never watched any more.
It’s entrainment not a history lesson.
Even the cinematography looks fuckin injected with that cheap netflix AI tinged colour graded shite. Netflix is gone very bad. Quietly happy its a poor show.
I’ve watched the first four, and even leaving aside the doodgy accents (though I think that’s a bit overblown by critics) it’s only ok. Comparing it to a masterpiece like Succession is laughable, but if you go in expecting something more like Bridgerton style fluff you won’t be too disappointed.
Not seen it, but every photo/still I’ve seen has made me think of the cracking observation someone made once about the big problem with modern historical dramas.
Far too often the lead actors have ‘faces that know about iPhones’.
I thought that was beyond brilliant and rarely inapposite, because of the universal refusal to refrain from making everyone très sexy and super-attractive by our own standards (and they’re sexually uninhibited too; nothing Victorian about *these* Victorians!)
It’s pretty awful. I made it 2 episodes in before the shite accents and the terrible writing killed it.
I got confused by there being a leprechaun in first episode. I was waiting for some magic to happen. It could have been good.
On a sidenote, Peaky Blinders has always been shite as well, yeah it has Cillian Murphy, but the show is complete style over substance.
Arthur guinness was also a total piece of shit IRL. He was a total crook taking bribes, ect, during his time in parliament and was even accused of election fraud. He was a staunch unionist and treated irish Catholic workers terribly compared to Protestants. A horrible bigoted bastard. Guinness being a national symbol of Ireland is just pure marketing.
I don’t get why everyone in the Guinness family was “f*ck this”, “f*ck that” and the woman who came in for her interview to be Arthur G’s “beard” was so frank about screwing around in a way that didn’t come in for at least another century. That just wasn’t the way at the time, not among aspirants such as the Guinnesses anyway.
My biggest problem is how they show feck all of Dublin, or other Irish locations like the actual Ashford Castle/House. They have mountains in the background whereas actually photos of the estate show it’s on flat lands
Is there something wrong with me, that I don’t hate this TV show. Think it’s completely OK entertainment. It’s Peaky Blinders with the Guinness family, made by the guy who made Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders was also OK entertainment, also full of clichés. Why is everyone so serious?
Rare that I’m a minute into the first episode of a show and I tell the missus I hate it.
Good TV shows and movies take you away. This just kept making me think the opposite.
It’s so obvious, cliched, acted.
Aside from the nice looking redhead there’s nothing here for me.
I’m out after one episode.
When I seen it get announced I was confused how they were going to turn settler colonialism into entertainment.
I’m watching it and it’s fun because it’s so bad. There is one thing wrecking my head though, when they’re at the brewery they always seem to be by water, did Guinness have the brewery and somewhere by the docks?
Didn’t make it halfway through episode one.
I’d watch a Steampunk Mr. Tayto tbf