Wicked City

  • NewsDave Nemetz

    Fall TV Scoreboard: Our Guide to All the Hits and Flops

    Ratings are down across the board for the broadcast networks (thanks a lot, Netflix), we’ve seen very few runaway hits, and we’re still waiting for our first official cancellation. Although that last one might just be a case of Hollywood doublespeak… but we’ll get to that in a minute.

  • NewsEthan Alter

    'Wicked City' Premiere Recap: A Neon-Soaked Bonnie and Clyde

    The ‘80s come alive in Wicked City, ABC’s first post-American Crime entry into the anthology procedural game. The gimmick behind the Steven Baigelman-created series is that each season (assuming there are more beyond this one, which, based on the reviews, seems like a “Case Closed” type of mystery) will take place in a different era from L.A.’s illustriously illegal past, with some of the same characters going along for the ride.  Season 1, for example, takes place in 1982, when the Sunset Stri

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'Wicked City' Review: Almost a Fate Worse Than Death

    There are few times when being snuffed by a serial killer seems a more appealing option than pretty much any other choice. Yet such is the case in the Tuesday premiere of Wicked City, when Kent, the Los Angeles murderer played by Ed Westwick, asks a potential victim, “You want to see Billy Idol at the Whisky?” Ewww; can you let me see the blade first, Kent? Wicked City, set in early-80s L.A. stars Westwick as vicious slimeball Kent Grainger, a guy who, given the era, makes the Runaways’ dictator

  • NewsEthan Alter

    'Wicked City' Preview: Erika Christensen & Ed Westwick on Discovering the '80s

    Get ready to feel super-old, folks. Several of the stars of ABC’s new ‘80s-set procedural, Wicked City, weren’t even alive when the series takes place: the distant past of 1982. For example, Ed Westwick — who plays the Clyde half of a Bonnie & Clyde-style team of serial killers haunting L.A.’s famed Sunset Strip — was born in 1987. His partner-in-crime, Erika Christensen, missed a big chunk of that year herself, having arrived in August of ‘82.