Today, we’re caught in a mix of disappointment and delight. If you had hoped to catch a fresh installment of From on MGM+ this evening, you might be in for a letdown. However, every cloud has a silver lining; this time, it comes in the form of an enthralling new series on MGM+ titled The Westies.

The gripping crime drama features an all-star cast including J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney, Stanley Morgan, and Sarah Bolger. Set against the gritty backdrop of 1980s New York, the narrative follows the nefariously ruthless Irish gang known as the Westies. According to official sources, despite facing overwhelming odds against the formidable Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies employ their notorious brutality and slyness to carve out a mutually beneficial, albeit tenuous, arrangement.

Having previewed the first two episodes, I can confidently say that fans of crime dramas will likely find The Westies the perfect addition to their Sunday night roster. But let’s return to our original query—when will From grace our screens again with new episodes? And what are the prospects for a fifth season? Here is the scoop you’ve been seeking.

How Many Episodes Are There of From Season 4?

Season four of From comprises ten episodes, with the season finale having aired on June 28 on MGM+.

Is From Season 4 Over?

So, indeed, the fourth installment of this beloved series has reached its end.

Will There Be a From Season 5?

You know it. Back in April, MGM+ renewed From for a fifth and final season.

“We are wildly excited to announce that we’ve officially begun work on Season 5,” creator John Griffin, showrunner Jeff Pinkner, and director Jack Bender said in a joint statement. “Which means we will get the chance to see our story to its conclusion. Which means questions will be answered. Answers will be questioned. And there will surely be a cascade of tears and terrors in between. We are thankful for the support of our friends and partners at MGM+. And we are grateful beyond measure for the mad passion of our entire FROMily. We’re excited to share season 4 with you and hope it whets your appetite for what’s to come.”

From Season 5 is expected to debut in 2027.

How To Watch The From On MGM+:

All four seasons of From are now streaming on MGM+, which is available for as low as $7.99/month or $5.17/month for a yearly subscription.

You can also watch MGM+ with an active subscription to Philo’s Essential plan ($25/month, plus $7.99/month for the MGM+ add-on), which offers a free trial, or Fubo TV’s Deluxe package, which is $73.99 for the first month and provides a free trial.

Finally, MGM+ is also available as an add-on for YouTube TV subscribers, DIRECTV customers (only $0.99 for the first three months), Prime Video streamers, and Sling TV subscribers ($8/month).

Does MGM+ Offer A Free Trial?

Yes! Not only does MGM+ offer a free trial, but you can also sample the streamer through Prime Video ($7.99/month after the free trial).

From Season 5 is expected to debut in 2027.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shared details about his last conversation with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away unexpectedly at the age of 71.

During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend this Sunday, Netanyahu reflected on how Graham had opposed his suggestion to discontinue U.S. military assistance to Israel.

“Due to his deep concern for our security, which he saw as intertwined with America’s security, he strongly argued for maintaining or even increasing U.S. aid to Israel,” Netanyahu recounted, highlighting Graham’s dedication. “This shows the extraordinary nature of this remarkable friend.”

Graham was known for his firm support of Ukraine and Israel, and he played a key role in advising the president on foreign policy issues involving Russia and Iran.

The senator passed away on Saturday evening in Washington D.C. following a sudden and brief illness.

The politician had just returned home from Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

Despite the prime minister telling Graham that Israel had ‘come of age’ with a ‘robust economy, the senator’s opinion did not change. 

‘[I told him] we can take care of our own — financing our own weapons for the defense of Israel and defense of our common interests with America, so I’m going to phase out… the military support for Israel over a period of years and bring it down to zero. We can do it,’ Netanyahu said. 

His comment comes just hours after President Donald Trump shared that he spoke to Graham just hours before he died. 

He recalled Graham being ‘like a member of the family to him,’ and that the two of them had spoken over the phone on Saturday night, just hours before he died.

Trump also revealed that Graham called him to discuss the passage of the SAVE America Act, which Graham co-sponsored in the US Senate.

‘He actually said he was tired, but he wanted to pass the SAVE America Act, and I said, |Well, we’re going to get it done, Lindsey. We’re going to get it done. I’ll see you, like, soon”,’ Trump noted on Meet the Press.

The SAVE America Act has been passed by the US House of Representatives three times, but has not been passed by the Senate, where it needs 60 votes due to the filibuster.

The office of Graham, who has represented South Carolina since 2002, announced in the early hours of Sunday that the senator had passed away. 

Trump had earlier shared a tribute to the late Senator on Truth Social shortly after the announcement was made.

‘Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Graham was one of Trump’s closest allies in the US Senate, consistently voting to enact the president’s agenda. 

In late March 2025, just a little more than a month after Trump took office, the president posted a lengthy endorsement of Graham, referring to the senator as ‘a wonderful friend.’

The president ordered that American flags be lowered at half-staff at the White House on Sunday morning to honor the late senator. 

He also joined several news networks, including NBC News and CNN, where he spoke about his love for Graham. 

When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he wanted to say anything about the late Republican, Trump said: ‘No, I think his finest moment was his defense of Brett Kavanaugh, who’s a terrific guy, and was treated very, very unfairly by the Democrats. Very – I’ve never seen anything like it,’ Trump replied, speaking of the US Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

‘He was treated so unfairly, and Lindsey, as you remember, had that moment. I think it was the top 10, maybe the top five moments in the history of the senate. It was an incredible display, and he did it from the heart,’ he added.

Trump’s comment refers to when Graham fiercley defended Kavanaugh against sexual assault allegations during the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

The senator blasted the hearing as the ‘most unethical sham’ he ever witnessed in politics, and said that Kavanaugh had ‘nothing to apologize for’ before urging Republicans to support the judge.

J.K. Simmons commands attention in any role he undertakes, capable of making even the most mundane script captivating. His latest venture is the MGM+ series The Westies, where he embodies a ruthless leader of an Irish-American crime syndicate set in the gritty backdrop of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen during the early 1980s.

THE WESTIES: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? 

Opening Scene: A tense standoff unfolds in a dimly lit warehouse, where a young man brandishes a gun towards someone with all the appearances of a mafia figure.

The Gist: The young man with the firearm is Davey O’Brien, played by Dan Reilly, a foot soldier for the Westies, an Irish crime syndicate holding sway in Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan’s west side. Leading this organization is Eamon Sweeney, portrayed by J.K. Simmons, who finds his gang’s influence waning under pressure from the Italian mob, particularly the notorious Gambino crime family. The hostage, Vincent Siccaro, played by Michael Rispoli, is a capo within this powerful Italian crime family.

Sweeney, alongside his trusted right-hand man Jimmy Roarke, portrayed by Tom Brittney, enters the warehouse to prevent Davey from making a grave mistake that could ignite a war between mob factions. Sweeney and Roarke must remind Davey that their operations have changed, now aligning with the Italians rather than antagonizing them with small-time kidnappings. However, before releasing Siccaro, Sweeney shockingly decides to eliminate Davey, explaining to a furious Jimmy that Davey’s unpredictability posed a serious risk to their organization.

Though Sweeney resents bowing down to the Italians, the stakes are substantial. With the Javits Center under construction on the Westies’ home ground, collaborating with the Gambino family provides access to lucrative racketeering opportunities. Without this alliance, the Westies face exclusion from these high-stakes profits.

When Sweeney is summoned to meet with fast-rising Gambino underboss John Gotti (Hamish Allan-Headly), he’s told that the Westies have to “silence” a union leader popular in the Irish community. At the same time, Jimmy’s friend Mickey Flanagan (Stanley Morgan) is being released from Bellvue, and he insists he’s well enough to work for Sweeney again. Jimmy’s girlfriend, Bridget Walsh (Sarah Bolger), is asked by a former IRA colleague (and ex), Brendan Cahill (Allen Leech), to “babysit” a rocket launcher he’s smuggled into New York for a big plan he’s looking to execute.

In the meantime, a beat cop named Glenn Keenan (Titus Welliver), is recruited by FBI Special Agent In Charge Birdie Polk (Jessica Frances Dukes) to join their task force to bring down the Gambinos. The plan is for him to get info from the Westies, given his background. What Polk doesn’t know is that Keenan grew up with Sweeney and takes payments from the Westies to look the other way; Sweeney encourages Keenan to join the task force and report back to him. But Keenan’s biggest concern is that his estranged son Danny (Aidan Wojtak-Hissong) doesn’t get involved with the Westies.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? The Westies, created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes, reminds us of other crime dramas about the Irish-American mob, like Brotherhood or The Black Donnellys.

Our Take: Like the aforementioned shows about the Irish-American mob, The Westies gives viewers a fair amount of Irish tropes, like people sitting around a pub drinking Guinness, needle drops from the Dropkick Murphys, and thugs in leather jackets and newsboy caps. What The Westies has that many of those other shows didn’t is J.K. Simmons and, to a lesser extent, Titus Welliver.

Simmons is excellent here as Eamon Sweeney. Sweeney is ruthless as the Westies’ leader, to the point where he has no compunction with shooting a loyal footsoldier in the head to keep him from screwing things up for them, and then show up to his funeral and actually seem regretful that he had to do it. When he’s being ordered around by Gotti, you can see in Simmons’ face that he hates being pushed around by the Italians, but he also is keeping his eyes on the prize, which is the huge payday associated with the Javits Center grift.

Welliver’s character, Glenn Keenan, seems to be a typical crooked veteran cop who has been on the job for decades and is counting the days to retirement while taking his kickbacks from Sweeney. But there is certainly more to his story, and the story of his and Sweeney’s frenemyship, just from what we can see in the once scene that Simmons and Welliver share in the first episode. They’re contemporaries who are from the same neighborhood and ran in the same circles, but one became a Westie and the other became a cop, albeit a corrupt one.

Their story is the one we find intriguing in the early going. The mob hierarchy between the Italians and the Irish brings a somewhat novel dynamic to this 1980s organized crime story, but it’s not novel enough to be interesting. Jimmy’s struggles to keep his unhinged friend Mickey from getting himself and others killed and Bridget’s struggle to keep her IRA past in check have the potential to be good stories, but they also feel a bit generic, despite good performances.

Performance Worth Watching: We mentioned Simmons and Welliver, so we’ll talk about Sarah Bolger, who has a potentially meaty role as Bridget, who is going to be pulled back into her IRA past by Brendan.

Sex And Skin: Some blurry toplessness in one scene, but that’s about it.

Parting Shot: After Sweeney orders Jimmy to shoot Mickey, Jimmy shoots someone else instead, and Sweeney says, “Do you know the fuckin’ troubles you just caused us?” Jimmy’s reply: “We’ve always got troubles.”

Sleeper Star: Jessica Frances Dukes plays Agent Birdie Polk as appropriately tough, weary and snarky, like when she tells Keenan that she’s the Special Agent In Charge, she then follows it up with, “I know, right? They even gave me a nameplate.”

Most Pilot-y Line: The way that Jimmy and Mickey “silence” the union leader doesn’t seem to have any repercussions, given what it seemed like everyone understood Gotti’s instructions to Sweeney were.

Our Call: STREAM IT. The Westies is a servicable crime drama thanks to the performances of Simmons and Welliver and the potential for their stories to yield interesting drama. The rest of the show is OK, but nothing that will stick in our minds after we watch the series.

Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.

President Donald Trump has asserted that the Strait of Hormuz remains ‘open’ in response to questions posed by a female NBC News reporter.

During a phone-in on Sunday’s Meet the Press, anchor Kristen Welker pressed Trump for clarity on the critical maritime route. This passage has been pivotal in the persistent conflict between the United States and Iran.

Welker addressed Trump, saying, ‘You’ve initiated a new wave of strikes overnight. Iran has claimed that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, yet this morning CENTCOM stated it remains open. Could you clarify the status, Mr. President, and outline your intended response?’

Interrupting Welker, the president emphatically responded, ‘It’s open, and I’m not discussing it further because I wish to honor Lindsey Graham’s memory. As I mentioned earlier, I won’t talk about it.’

Senator Graham, representing South Carolina, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday night at the age of 71.

A 911 call for a ‘cardiac arrest’ was placed from the Republicans’ residence around 8.30pm, but no official cause of death has been confirmed, according to multiple reports. 

The president ordered that American flags be lowered at half-staff at the White House on Sunday morning to honor the late senator and Trump ally. 

Trump also joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning, where he shared a similar reaction when asked about the war. 

‘Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed,’ Tapper said. ‘Is that true, Mr. President?’ 

‘It’s open as far as I’m concerned. Don’t talk about it, talk about the reason you asked me to speak,’ Trump quipped at the journalist. 

Tapper then asked him: ‘Ok, we appreciate your time, sir. Before I let you go, is there any final word that you want the American people to know about Lindsey Graham?’ 

‘No, I think his finest moment was his defense of Brett Kavanaugh, who’s a terrific guy, and was treated very, very unfairly by the Democrats. Very – I’ve never seen anything like it,’ Trump replied, speaking of the US Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 

‘He was treated so unfairly, and Lindsey, as you remember, had that moment. I think it was the top 10, maybe the top five moments in the history of the senate. It was an incredible display, and he did it from the heart,’ he added. 

Trump’s comment refers to when Graham fiercley defended Kavanaugh against sexual assault allegations during the 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. 

The senator blasted the hearing as the ‘most unethical sham’ he ever witnessed in politics, and said that Kavanaugh had ‘nothing to apologize for’ before urging Republicans to support the judge. 

Despite stating that he didn’t want to talk about the war, Trump gave Welker a bit more information about the current situation with Iran. 

‘It’s open,’ he said in regard to the waterway. ‘We bombed the hell out of them last night. They are very, very evil and sick people. We had meetings with them. 

‘They agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect deal for us, no nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing, they gave up everything. 

‘And then after that, they left the room, and then within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship. I said, “You people are sick, you’re sick people”. And, so, it’s one of those things,’ he said before pivoting to talk about Graham. 

He recalled Graham being ‘like a member of the family to him,’ and that the two of them had spoken over the phone on Saturday night, just hours before he died. 

Trump also revealed that Graham called him to discuss the passage of the SAVE America Act, which Graham co-sponsored in the US Senate.

‘He actually said he was tired, but he wanted to pass the SAVE America Act, and I said, ‘Well, we’re going to get it done, Lindsey. We’re going to get it done. I’ll see you, like, soon,’ Trump noted on Meet the Press.

The SAVE America Act has been passed by the US House of Representatives three times, but has not been passed by the Senate, where it needs 60 votes due to the filibuster.

The office of Graham, who has represented South Carolina since 2002, announced in the early hours of Sunday that the senator, ‘had passed away from a brief and sudden illness.’ 

Trump had earlier shared a tribute to the late Senator on Truth Social shortly after the announcement was made.

‘Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Graham was one of Trump’s closest allies in the US Senate, consistently voting to enact the president’s agenda.

The senator was also a staunch supporter of Ukraine and Israel, and he advised the president on foreign policy matters pertaining to Russia and Iran.

In late March 2025, just a little more than a month after Trump took office, the president posted a lengthy endorsement of Graham, referring to the senator as ‘a wonderful friend.’

WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, Senator Lindsey Graham declared he had reached his limit with the leader idolized by the rioters: President Donald Trump.

“Trump and I have been on an incredible journey. It’s heartbreaking for it to conclude like this. Honestly, it devastates me,” a visibly moved Graham expressed when the Senate resumed following the clearing of the rioters. “From my perspective, he’s been an impactful president. But, I have to say, I’m done. There comes a point where enough is enough.”

Yet, that was far from the end.

Senator Graham, who was a significant figure within the Republican party from South Carolina, unexpectedly passed away at age 71 on a Saturday night. He soon acknowledged that his political party’s fate was tightly interwoven with Trump and swiftly returned to defending him. This reconversion showed that what appeared to be an irreversible break was merely another chapter in the complex and turbulent saga of their political alignment.

“Can we advance without President Trump? The answer is no,” Graham conceded in May 2021, barely four months following the violent breach. “I’ve realized that our growth is impossible without his involvement.”

Trump, who called Graham a “true American Patriot” in a social media post Sunday, appeared shocked by the lawmaker’s sudden passing.

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