If you've gotten over "Peaky Blinders" or need another gangster series fix, Prime Video is prepping something for you. Two legendary actors, who have dabbled in the feature-length and television space from time to time, are teaming up for "The Westies,” touted by Amazon MGM Studios, which is platforming the show, as a "gritty and kinetic crime drama revolving around New York City’s infamously violent Irish gang of the same name."
A trailer for the 1980s-set 8-episode series, co-created by Chris Brancato and Michael Paneshas, has already been released online. The streaming premiere has been set for July 12, 2026, on Prime Video and MGM+ in different international territories.
JK Simmons ("Whiplash", "Counterpart") and Titus Welliver ("Bosch", "The Town") headline the show as the leads alongside co-stars Tom Brittney, Sarah Bolger, and Allen Leech, among others.
The official logline further adds: "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."
Additional cast members include Jessica Frances Dukes, Hamish Allan-Headley, Vincent Walsh, Allen Leech, and Hillary McCormack, with Aidan Wojtak-Hissong, Jeremy Walmsley, Dylan Taylor and Rohan Mead appearing in recurring roles.
