WHAT IT'S ABOUT The story of the Guinness family during a period of transition for their eponymous brewing company arrives as an eight-part series on Netflix from the "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight.

It's 1868 in Dublin, with tensions high between the unionists committed to Ireland remaining a part of the United Kingdom and the Irish Republican Fenians rebelling against British rule.

The show begins with the death of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness. The father of four adult children, he leaves the business to sons Arthur (Anthony Boyle, who played John Wilkes Booth in "Manhunt" ) and Edward (Louis Partridge, Sid Vicious in 2022's "Pistol" ), with daughter Anne (Emily Fairn) and the other son, also named Benjamin (Fionn O'Shea), left behind.

The fictionalized "House of Gui

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