This article contains spoilers for House of Guinness.

You can just see the light bulb going on over the Netflix executives’ heads when they heard the pitch: “A late-Victorian family determined to maximize their money and power? Warring siblings vying for control of the patriarch’s empire? Sign us up!” The new House of Guinness series, based on the true rise and rise of the Dublin-based brewing family, bears the hallmarks of creator Steven Knight’s muscular storytelling as seen in his earlier shows like SAS Rogue Heroes and, especially, Peaky Blinders —fast-moving, extended action sequences, lashings of sex and fighting, and anachronistic musical scores incorporating metal and rap. The dialogue is similarly anachronistic, with f-bombs being dropped right, left, and center, even by w

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