House of Guinness Season 2: Canceled or Renewed? The Answer May Surprise You

Netflix dropped House of Guinness and, yeah, it pretty much delivers what the trailers sold: a pulpy, prestige-tinged family saga dressed up in history that ends on a serious cliffhanger. Naturally, everyone wants to know if Season 2 is happening. Short answer: not yet. Longer answer: keep reading.

Where Season 2 stands

As of now, Netflix has not renewed or canceled House of Guinness. The decision is going to come down to the usual suspects: viewership and how loudly people keep talking about it. Translation: if it performs, it lives.

The quick need-to-knows

• Creator: Steven Knight (yes, the Peaky Blinders guy)
• Premiere: September 25, 2025
• Season 1: 8 episodes, all released at once
• Premise: A late-19th-century Guinness family power struggle after patriarch Benjamin Guinness dies
• Reality vs drama: Real names and touchpoints, but plenty of invented relationships and conflicts for story juice
• Setting: Dublin, Ireland, in a period when Ireland was under British rule
• The heirs: Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Benjamin (the children left to sort the mess)
• The tricky will: Arthur and Edward’s inheritance is chained together — if one forfeits, both lose their claim
• Season 1 endgame: During Arthur’s election speech, Patrick (Paddy) Cochrane opens fire; his sister Ellen spots him and flags Sean Rafferty, but Patrick shoots before they can stop him
• Status: No Season 2 greenlight yet, but that finale is basically a huge neon sign for more

So what is this show, exactly?

House of Guinness plays the historical-fiction game: it pulls in real figures and moments, then tweaks, compresses, and outright invents personal dynamics to make it a propulsive soap about legacy, loyalty, and backstabbing. Consider it history-adjacent with a healthy dose of melodrama. If you know Steven Knight’s taste for messy families and cleaner knives, you get the vibe.

About that cliffhanger

The season builds to Arthur stepping onto the political stage, only for Patrick Cochrane to aim chaos right at him. Ellen Cochrane clocks what her brother is about to do and tries to help Sean Rafferty intercept, but the shot still rings out. It is the kind of ending that practically begs for a follow-up episode… or eight.

What happens next?

Officially, nothing is set. Unofficially, that finale is engineered to launch Season 2. If the numbers are there, expect Netflix to say something. Until then, everything from dynastic fallout to political blowback is on the table — because the show has already told you it is willing to bend history to keep the drama sizzling.

Where to watch

All 8 episodes of House of Guinness are streaming on Netflix right now. If you were waiting to see if it sticks the landing before diving in, it sticks it and then fires a gun into the air for good measure.