Drama
House of Guinness
Lawlessness brews in House of Guinness as the children of the late Sir Benjamin Guinness vie for political power and personal pleasure.
It was supposed to be an easy trip.
Raylan was on the way to drop his daughter, Willa, off at a summer boarding camp when someone rear-ended them and tried to hijack their car.
Of course, the perps didn’t realize Raylan was a U.S. marshal. So instead of a stealing his ride, they wound up taking one with him downtown.
It might’ve ended there. But as it turns out, there was a “be on the lookout” bulletin for the driver out of Michigan. And since the incident caused Raylan to miss Willa’s transport for camp, the pair wind up traveling from their home in Florida to Detroit to prosecute the felon.
Again, it might’ve ended after that. But the judge (whom someone had tried to blow up the morning of the trial) took a liking to Raylan and requested that he be assigned to the team tracking his would-be bomber down.
They find the bomber, but the judge dies anyway—murdered, along with his assistant, by an unknown assailant.
All we really know about this guy is that he’s dangerous. He likes killing for the sake of killing. And if Raylan manages to track him down, there’s a good chance this guy won’t stop until everyone Raylan loves is dead.
If you can name problematic content, then it’s probably in this show.
There’s nudity paired with sex. Bloody and violent deaths take place. The f-word is dropped haphazardly along with other profanities. Criminals steal whatever they can get their hands on. Most characters imbibe liquor. Others smoke cigarettes and marijuana. Some gamble. And the entire show serves as a commentary on the racial problems of Detroit.
It’s not a pleasant sort of story. And it’s hard to justify watching it.
Raylan gets roped into hunting down the killer of a judge after helping that same judge put a man in prison.
Willa calls the camp she’s attending “conversion therapy,” and we learn she’s being sent there as a lesson after breaking another girl’s nose. When her dad says the camp’s no-phone policy sounds like heaven, she calls him a hypocrite since he wouldn’t last an hour without his own phone.
Drivers purposely hit other vehicles with their own. In one instance, it’s to try to steal the car they hit. In another, it’s to murder the driver in an extreme case of road rage. Several people are killed with guns. Cops and bad guys alike use guns and knives to threaten people. A woman is kidnapped at gunpoint. A car is blown up with nobody inside, but the explosion causes a man to fall and cut his head. We see a dead deer (killed by a hunter) tied to the back of a man’s car. A cop brags about the viciousness of his K-9 unit, and we later see the dog take down a man. Officers discover bomb-making paraphernalia at someone’s house. A man is kicked down a set of stairs, breaking his nose. An impatient driver runs his vehicle through a parking garage barrier.
A couple has sex and we see a fair bit of nudity, including the man’s backside. They talk crassly about sex. Another couple kisses passionately. We see some women in revealing outfits that bare cleavage. We learn a man tried to kill a judge for sleeping with his mom.
A judge rules against the recommendation of a prosecutor because he believes it was racist. We hear other references to racial bias. Raylan is criticized for leaving two perps handcuffed in the backseat of his car on a hot day and threatening to put one of them in his trunk. (And a lawyer tries to make it out like he did this because he is racist.) A couple of men with “misguided notions of patriotism” have a Confederate flag sticker on their truck.
Willa is put into a holding cell after disturbing a trial. Raylan later follows her after crossing the judge. People gamble at a casino. Two people scheme to rob a rich foreigner. We hear a man defrauded his ex-wife and a community he had promised to help. Then he threatens his ex-wife, telling her that if she doesn’t help him pay off his creditors, they might come after her even though she pays him alimony. A man is rude and condescending to his assistant. A judge is suspected of being corrupt, and we learn his assistant was working for the police.
Characters smoke cigarettes and marijuana. (And even though we hear about illegal drug-dealing, it’s stated that the weed is legal.) We hear someone drank themselves “stupid.” Some scenes take place in a bar.
A woman says that Jesus himself couldn’t help her son and that her son is “going to hell in a handbasket.”
The f-word is heard nearly 20 times and the s-word another 20. “A–,” “a–hole,” “b–ch,” “d–n” and “h—” all make frequent appearances. And God’s name is abused about ten times, half of which are paired with “d–n,” while Jesus’ name is abused three times. Someone uses the racial slur “cracker.” A man flips somebody off.
Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.
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