House of Guinness
NZ release: 25 September 2025
Sex scenes, violence Rated on: 25 September 2025
Season 1, Episodes 1-3
What’s it about?
Based on ‘true stories’ of the family behind the Guinness brewing company in 19th-century Ireland and New York. After the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, we follow the fate of his four adult children.
The facts
- Episodes directed by Tom Shankland, Mounia Akl
- Created and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders)
- English language
- Runtime: ~50 minutes per episode
- Starring Anthony Boyle, Jack Gleeson, Louis Partridge, James Norton
- Netflix original series
Why did it get this rating?
This series was self-rated by Netflix. You can find out more about self-rating by streaming providers here.
Sex
A woman holding a gun forces a man to pull down his trousers. It is dark and we don’t see any detail. She looks down and threatens to ‘shoot it off’.
Violence
Protesters and workers clash during a funeral procession. We see people arm themselves with metal objects and then use the weapons during fist fights. We see someone get kicked in the head while wounded on the ground. There’s limited injury detail, but we do see some blood splatter. We subsequently see people battered and bruised with some bloody facial cuts.
We see three men partially naked and chain to chairs in a dark warehouse. They are tortured by being threatened with violence and knocked to the ground, and we see one having his jaw broken by being stood on.
A man grabs and crushes another man’s genitals through his clothing.
Content that may disturb
In episode three a character suffers a miscarriage. We see blood on her skirts and on her hands. Later she asks if there was ‘anything to bury’ and it’s confirmed that it was an early-stage pregnancy miscarriage.
Offensive language
There is occasional swearing, used as emphasis such as ‘where the f*ck is Arthur?’, ‘f*cking’, and as an insult such as ‘f*ckers!’.
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