The Westies Won't Be Your American Peaky Blinders

Inside the true story behind thrilling new historical drama The Westies

New gangster drama The Westies is perfect for fans of Peaky Blinders and The Sopranos.

Amazon Prime's new gangster thriller is edge-of-your-seat viewing

Metro contributor Adam Miller shares his three-star review of Amazon Prime's new thriller, The Westies starring JK Simmons.

The Westies won't be your American Peaky Blinders

The real-life gang from which MGM+’s new series The Westies takes its name technically never chose or used the moniker by which they are now remembered. Perhaps that’s part of what makes it so easy for the show, created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes of Godfather Of Harlem and Hotel Cocaine fame, to treat the group as a kind of blank slate on which to hang so many of the familiar tropes and themes that better gangland dramas have explored m…

MGM+’s New York Irish Gang Series THE WESTIES Premieres: Filmed in Toronto

MGM+’s’ new Irish gang crime series The Westies, starring Tom Brittney and JK Simmons, premieres, with Toronto playing 1980s New York City. The Westies is a gritty and kinetic crime drama centering on New York City’s infamously violent Irish gang of the same name. The series is set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial windfall. Despite bein…

Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Westies' on MGM+, a gritty drama about Hell's Kitchen's Irish mob in the 1980s

J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney and Jessica Frances Dukes star in the crime drama.

JK Simmons & Titus Welliver Bring Irish-American Mob History To Life In MGM+'s The Westies

ScreenRant visits the set of The Westies season 1, speaking to J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney, and the creators about what's in store.