‘The Westies’ Season 1 Episode 8 Release Date and Time
Fans of MGM+’s gritty new gangster saga are counting down the days until ‘The Westies‘ wraps up its first season, and the wait is almost over. The crime drama has spent the summer chronicling the rise and fall of a notorious Irish gang, and the finale is finally within reach.
Season 1 of ‘The Westies’ consists of eight episodes, and the series premiered on Sunday, July 12, 2026, with a double episode airing at 9 p.m. ET and PT before shifting to a weekly Sunday release for the rest of the season. That means episode 8, the season finale, is the last piece of the puzzle for viewers who have been following Jimmy Roarke’s dangerous climb through the criminal underworld.
‘The Westies’ Season 1 Episode 8 Release Date and Time
According to the season’s release schedule, episode 8 is titled The Irish Goodbye and it arrives on August 23, 2026. That puts the finale one week after episode 7, which is titled A Boy Made of Trouble and lands on August 16, 2026, according to the same schedule.
New episodes of ‘The Westies’ air on MGM+ in the United States at 9 p.m. ET on Sundays, with the series reaching the MGM+ streaming service the same day, though the exact upload time can vary slightly depending on channel subscriptions, local distributors, and device listings.
For anyone converting that broadcast slot to a different time zone, the safest bet is to check local listings the day of release since platforms and providers can shift things by an hour or two.
The Westies premiered with a special two episode debut on MGM+ through DIRECTV, and new episodes have continued to debut weekly through the season finale. That steady weekly cadence has made the show one of the more predictable appointment viewing options of the summer, which is a nice change of pace in an era of erratic streaming drops.
Where to Watch ‘The Westies’ Season Finale
MGM+ remains the home for every episode of ‘The Westies,’ and that has not changed heading into the finale. The Westies streams on MGM+ through the MGM+ app or the MGM+ add-on offered through providers like Prime Video Channels and DIRECTV.
That flexibility matters for viewers who do not subscribe to a traditional cable package, since MGM+ has leaned into being available through multiple third party bundles rather than locking itself behind a single distributor. Anyone hoping to catch The Irish Goodbye the moment it drops should make sure their MGM+ access is active before that Sunday night slot.
The series runs about 45 minutes per episode and falls under the crime, mystery, drama and historical genres, with MGM+ as its home network in the United States. That runtime has stayed fairly consistent, with some episodes stretching slightly longer depending on how much ground the story needs to cover.
What to Expect From ‘The Westies’ Finale
‘The Westies’ has built its entire season around a fragile and increasingly unstable truce. The Irish criminal gang known as the Westies hopes to profit from the construction of a convention center, but its leader has to maintain a delicate peace with the Italian Mafia in order to make that happen, a situation complicated further by a generational struggle inside the gang and an ongoing FBI investigation.
That tension has only escalated as the season has progressed. The Westies’ fragile deal with the Italians unraveled after a reckless kidnapping, Mickey Flanagan was released from Bellevue and rejoined Roarke’s crew, Glenn Keenan was pulled onto an FBI task force, and Bridget Walsh received a dangerous assignment from an IRA contact.
Things got messier from there. Roarke and the Westies hid the body of a dead Italian mobster and staged crimes to cover up the murder before John Gotti could retaliate, while Agent Birdie Polk pressured Keenan to dig into Eamon Sweeney’s Mafia ties as Bridget uncovered more of Brendan Cahill’s plot.
With that much unresolved conflict swirling around Roarke, Sweeney, Gotti and the FBI, The Irish Goodbye has plenty of loose ends to tie up, and given the show’s willingness to kill off major players already, nobody watching should assume everyone makes it to the credits.
The Cast Bringing ‘The Westies’ to Life
Part of what has kept audiences hooked all season is the ensemble carrying the story. The lead roles are played by J. K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney, Jessica Frances Dukes, Stanley Morgan, Sarah Bolger, Allen Leech and Hamish Allan-Headley, with the series created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes.
Welliver’s performance as the conflicted NYPD officer caught between the law and his old neighborhood has become a particular talking point. His character Keenan is an NYPD officer with personal ties to the neighborhood who gets recruited by Polk into an FBI operation targeting organized crime, an assignment that leaves him caught between federal demands, old loyalties, police corruption, and his estranged son Danny, who has begun working for the Westies.
Bridget Walsh’s arc has also expanded the show’s scope well beyond Hell’s Kitchen. Her storyline through the IRA operation with Brendan Cahill broadens the criminal conflict beyond local territory and adds political conviction to a group already divided by money and generational resentment.
With The Irish Goodbye set to close out these threads on August 23, the countdown is officially on for one of MGM+’s biggest summer swings to deliver a finale worthy of everything it has built. Which of the Westies do you think survives to see the other side of that truce, and who do you think Gotti finally comes for first?
