[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the House of Guinness Season 1 finale.]
Home of Guinness Season 1 went out with a bang — actually. The ultimate moments delivered a cliffhanger that places one of many Guinness siblings’ lives in peril after one among them was shot at by a foe. As of the time of publication, Home of Guinness has not been renewed for Season 2, however that cliffhanger definitely implies that there’s extra story to be instructed. Creator Steven Knight (of Peaky Blinders fame) tells TV Insider that he does need a Home of Guinness Season 2.
“I intend to [make more House of Guinness],” Knight tells us within the video interview above. “I can’t make any bulletins, however that’s my plan at the least.” He appears fairly assured that this present isn’t over in our interview, however we’ll have to attend for updates from Netflix on that entrance. The solid is keen to return as effectively. They share their hopes for the second season above.
Set in 1860s Eire, Home of Guinness kicks off after the need of Benjamin Guinness is learn to his 4 grownup kids, Arthur (Anthony Boyle), Edward (Louis Partridge), Anne (Emily Fairn), and Ben (Fionn O’Shea). Pricey previous dad left the Guinness brewery within the palms of not only one son, however his eldest two. Eldest son Arthur hoped to have the ability to promote his possession of the household enterprise and set off for a unique life, however his father made that inconceivable in his will. Anthony and the second-eldest son, Edward (who was far more fascinated about and higher suited to run the household enterprise), had been pressured to take cost of it collectively. Sister Anne obtained no a part of the brewery as a consequence of her intercourse, and Ben, who struggles with alcoholism and cash troubles, was given his inheritance within the type of a month-to-month wage as a substitute of a lump sum that he might shortly squander.
Whereas the Guinness siblings grappled with their father’s choices inside their household, political unrest grew outdoors their brewery’s partitions. The household wasn’t fashionable amongst a sure sect of the inhabitants. Siblings Patrick (Seamus O’Hara) and Ellen Cochrane (Niamh McCormack) had been main a combat towards the household and its wealth and affect over Eire. It was Patrick who fired the shot within the finale cliffhanger, and Ellen blew the warning whistle towards her personal brother as he geared toward their foes, seemingly setting them on separate paths ought to the present proceed.
“I need to know who obtained shot!” Patridge tells us within the video above. Boyle jokes, “I do know who obtained shot. [Knight] instructed me. I promise you. And I’m going to disclose it proper now.” He didn’t, in fact, however Boyle did share what he desires to see occur to Arthur ought to the present proceed.
“What Steven does very well is, he makes use of these historic tales as a launch pad and doesn’t get too slowed down by the semantics of historical past,” Boyle says. “He’s similar to, It is a nice story now that’s elevated by peppering a few of my very own fact onto it.” In the event that they get a second season, Boyle says he desires to dig deeper into Arthur’s relationship together with his spouse, Olivia (Danielle Galligan). They entered a wedding of comfort, one the place each of them had been free to like who they cherished. For Arthur, that was Michael (Cassion Bilton). For Olivia, that was Guinness strongman Sean Rafferty (James Norton). That is all, in fact, depending on “if I don’t get shot,” Boyle jokes.
Rafferty and Olivia needed to be collectively in the long run, however Arthur threatened that Olivia ending their marriage would lead to social spoil for the couple.
“We’d like to proceed the story and see the place it takes us, as a result of I feel Rafferty and Olivia are sturdy folks. They’ve all the time obtained what they needed, actually, in life, and all of a sudden they’re confronted with this inconceivable contradiction,” Norton explains. “The brothers are positively getting into their very own, and so they’re changing into increasingly more highly effective, and Arthur’s made it very clear that if we pursue this relationship, we lose every little thing. And but, on the finish, Rafferty is like, I hate them. We might be collectively. Sooner or later, we might be collectively.”
“For Olivia, she has so few choices with which to funnel and comply with her ambition,” Calligan says, including, “Security and safety [are] actually necessary to her. So then on the finish, when it’s all thrown into query, does she select love or security and safety and the life that she’s constructed for herself? [It’s] left unanswered. She’s attempting to have her cake and eat it too. So we’ll see if, like Icarus, she flies too near the solar.”
Take a deeper dive into Home of Guinness Season 1, its ending, and what the solid desires to do subsequent within the full video interview above.
Home of Guinness, Season 1 Out there Now, Netflix