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Alison Herman
TV Critic
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Courtesy of MGM+ The construction of the glass box where Hillary Clinton would eventually concede the 2016 election may not sound like the stuff of riveting television. And sure enough, it isn’t — at least in “The Westies,” the MGM+ drama about how the titular Irish gang worked to profit off the building of the Javits Center on the far edge of Manhattan. Despite the presence of veteran actors like J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver as a local crime boss and the crooked cop he keeps on the payroll, “The Westies” is unable to deliver a distinctive take on a well-worn genre.
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