[05/20/26 - 10:01 AM] Video: MGM+ Debuts Teaser for "The Westies" The gritty and kinetic crime drama centers on New York City's infamously violent Irish gang of the same name.
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DESCRIPTION: (from MGM+'s press release, May 2026) 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 being outnumbered fifty-to-one 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. But 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.
