by Ricky Church
The first trailer for MGM+’s upcoming crime drama The Westieshas been released. Led by J.K. Simmons, the series follows an Irish crime family as they face a changing landscape of power in their neighbourhood of Hell’s Kitchen amid an FBI investigation. Check out the trailer, poster and first-look images below…
The Westiesis set in the early 1980s, when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial windfall for the Irish-American organized crime gang. Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente. However, internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.
Joining Simmons in the series are Tom Brittney (Greyhound), Titus Welliver (Bosch), Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark), Allen Leech (Downton Abbey), Sarah Bolger (Mayans M.C.), Hamish Allan-Headley (Daredevil: Born Again) and Stanley Morgan (The Serpent Queen).
The Westies premieres on MGM+ on July 12th.
