Titus Welliver, welcome back. It’s fantastic to see the man who brought Harry Bosch to life back on our screens at last, and once again, he’s playing a police officer, doing his best to keep the city safe. Wait, what do you mean “corrupt”? Hold on, this isn’t Bosch? Then what are we getting ourselves in for here?
The latest blood-soaked New York drama is about to hit our screens, from MGM+. The Westies, which premieres Sunday, July 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, just unveiled its first teaser, giving viewers a taste of the brutal gang war simmering beneath Hell’s Kitchen, during one of the most dangerous and violent eras in the city’s history.
Set during the 190s, The Westies follows the infamous Irish-American gang during an historic gang war as they fought desperately to hold onto power while the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center brings huge money into their territory. They’re wildly outnumbered by New York’s Five Families, but the Westies know how to fight for their territory and this is a fight they’re determined to win.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Who Stars in ‘The Westies’?
The cast includes J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Spider-Man) as Eamon Sweeney, Titus Welliver (Bosch) as Glenn Keenan, Tom Brittney (Grantchester) as James “Jimmy” Roarke, Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark) as Birdie Polk, Stanley Morgan (I Used to Be Famous) as Mickey Flanagan, Sarah Bolger (Mayans M.C.) as Bridget Walsh, Allen Leech (Downton Abbey) as Brendan Cahill, Hamish Allan-Headley (Mayor of Kingstown) as John Gotti, Vincent Walsh (Billy the Kid) as Eddie Breen, and Hilary McCormack as Erin Malone.
The Westies comes from Chris Brancato (Godfather of Harlem, Narcos) and Michael Panes, with Brancato serving as showrunner and executive producer. In a previous interview with Collider, we were told that Keenan was “no Harry Bosch”, and that he was as corrupt as it gets, with a “compromised” moral compass, as Welliver explained. He went on to say:
“But believe me, this guy is a Vietnam War veteran. He’s a beat cop. He still walks the streets, but he’s corrupt. His moral compass has been completely compromised. Somebody said to me, ‘Do you really want to do another cop?’ Well, if I could let you read the script, you would realize why. This is a very, very complex and deeply nuanced character… But this is a very, very dark world.”
The Westies premieres July 12 on MGM+. Check out the trailer above.
