JK Simmons’ crime drama ‘The Westies’ is a flat version of New York’s Irish mafia: TV review0

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• July 12, 2026

The construction of the glass box where Hillary Clinton would eventually concede the 2016 election may not seem like the stuff of riveting television. And sure enough, it’s not, at least in “The Westies,” the MGM+ drama about how the top Irish gang worked to profit from the construction of the Javits Center on the