Network: ABC
Episodes: Eight but five unaired (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: October 27, 2015 — November 10, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen, Jeremy Sisto, Taissa Farmiga, Gabriel Luna, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman.
TV show description:
This crime anthology follows cases set during famous and infamous moments of Los Angeles history. The first case is set on the seedy Sunset Strip of the early 1980s. Amidst the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, a sinister someone stalks sultry starlet-wannabes.
Kent Grainger (Ed Westwick), in the guise of a Hollywood bigwig, trawls the clubs, making empty promises of fame and fortune to pretty young things. Once he dedicates a song to a woman on the radio, her days are numbered.
Kent meets his match in Betty Beaumontaine (Erika Christensen), a single mother who supports her family working as a nurse. Tantalized by the prospect of drawing his lover into his twisted, secret life, will Kent coax Betty into being his perverse partner on his killing spree?
Detective Jack Roth (Jeremy Sisto) and his new partner Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna) are on the case. Their partnership is an uneasy one, though. Paco is responsible for getting Jack’s former partner thrown off the force. This is not Jack’s first newsworthy case, and he’s made many contacts during the course of his career. Cops, reporters, dealers, and clubbers form a team of rivals, to catch the killer terrorizing the Strip.
As Kent preys upon the innocent, Jack and Paco decide that when it comes to catching this killer, the end justifies the means.
Jack is having an affair with Detective Dianne Kubek (Karolina Wydra), who is on an undercover assignment at a strip club as cocktail waitress/drug dealer. As the bodies pile up, the tension between Jack and Dianne’s personal and professional relationships escalates.
Karen McClaren (Taissa Farmiga), is a rookie reporter who covers the Strip and witnesses one of the victims leaving a club. Karen is approached by killer Kent and unwittingly gives him her phone number. Jack and Paco eventually use Karen as bait to lure the killer out of the shadows. Now they must keep her alive.
Series Finale:
Episode #8
This episode has not aired yet.
First aired: TBD
What do you think? Do you like the Wicked City TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
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41 Comments on "Wicked City"
I want it to stay. Why do they cancel all the good shows?
Love Ed Westwick
I was a Go-Go Dancer during this Era and this Series is the most accurate depiction of the Times I have ever seen, it figures Great Script Great Cast Gets cancelled too intellectiual for The mASSes !
This show should never have been cancelled! Sure it is creepy but so are Dexter and Hannibal, two other great shows that actually make one think, and are different than the general garden variety crime drama. Please bring it back!
The show was just getting interesting. All shows have a rough start. Friends was horrible, still is and was. This is just me.
I loved this show and only 3 episodes, really? This show was just as entertaining and as well done as Aquarius. Both are period pieces set in LA and uses events from real life to set stories around. If ABC is too afraid to air this great show then maybe NBC to pick it up. I think they would do a better job with it anyways. Just sayin…
I felt like it could have been a great show; people love these types of crime dramas. This wasn’t given a chance to take off. They listened to overly Sensitive viewers and took it off the air. I felt like this could have picked up really well had it been given any advertising or time. I didn’t even know about Dexter until it had been on for two seasons. Hello, it could have been a new “Dexter.”
This is a great show. It wasn’t given a chance. 3 episodes! Really?!!
Not sorry at all to see it go. Real time sick-os don’t need any more ideas on how to mistreat women.
Hey everyone! The whole first season is on Hulu! I’m currently watching episode 7 and episode 8 is next! I do wish they would’ve kept the show on, it’s good entertainment and I dig the vibe and the storyline is decent. It is what it is and I liked it a lot! Too bad it’s cancelled 🙁
They sre also on demand and they were great. My dream is for NBC to pick up the show and run with it!
bring back Wicked City
I loved the show – especially episodes 4-7 – story was captivating – waiting for finale – wish you would bring it back……
I finally found a show I couldn’t wait to watch and now I find out it’s been cancelled. BRING IT BACK!!
Great show unlike anyother and should remain on.
great show. unlike any other. keep it on please.
PLEASE bring it back. The actors were GREAT!