Wicked City Preview: First Look at the New Drama Starring Ed Westwick and Erika Christensen

Wicked City Preview: First Look at the New Drama Starring Ed Westwick and Erika Christensen

Ashley Bissette Sumerel Previews

Ed Westwick and Erika Christensen as a couple of serial killers in the 80s? Sign me up.

ABC’s Wicked City is on a long list of new shows we can look forward to with the next television season, though this one is going to make us wait until January.

Ed Westwick, who you might know best as Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl, plays Kent, a serial killer who has no trouble seducing young women before brutally murdering them. And Erika Christensen (Parenthood) is no Julia Braverman in this series. She plays Betty, a woman who finds herself romantically involved with Kent, also becoming his partner in crime.

Wicked City takes place in L.A., focusing specifically on the Sunset Strip as detectives form alliances to try a solve the serial murder case.

The show looks twisted, crazy, and completely intriguing. Check out the trailer below to see what I mean. You’ll never listen to “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” the same way again.

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Wicked City also stars Taissa Farmiga as Karen, Gabriel Luna as Paco, Karolina Wydra as Dianne and Anne Winters as Vicki. It’s written by Steven Baigelman, who also serves as Executive producer along with Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman and Laurie Zaks.

Are you excited to see Wicked City? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

Ashley Bissette Sumerel is a television and film critic living in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is editor-in-chief of Tell-Tale TV as well as Eulalie Magazine. Ashley has also written for outlets such as Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, and Insider. Ashley has been a member of the Critics Choice Association since 2017 and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In addition to her work as an editor and critic, Ashley teaches Entertainment Journalism, Composition, and Literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.