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‘Task’ Star Tom Pelphrey Breaks Down Robbie’s Impossible Choice in Premiere Twist
The HBO mini-series depicts a former priest turned FBI agent leading a task force investigating robberies involving the Dark Hearts motorcycle gang in Delaware County's blue collar communities.
- Ahead of Task's debut, Brad Ingelsby, Tom Pelphrey and Emilia Jones unpack Episode 'Crossings,' which begins as a slice-of-life before violent robbery forces Robbie and Cliff to kidnap a boy at Robbie's home with Maeve in Delaware County.
- A string of robberies targeting Dark Hearts drug houses led Martha Plimpton's Kathleen, soon-to-be-retired boss, to assemble a task force led by Tom Brandis, former priest-turned-FBI agent.
- Robbie is introduced as a sanitation worker who moonlights as a thief, using his route to scout trap houses and playing with his two young children while Tom Brandis struggles to connect with his daughter.
- At the episode's end, Robbie Prendergast refuses to kill the kidnapped boy, raising stakes, while Brad Ingelsby, creator, said he wanted a haunting final shot to shock viewers.
- Brad Ingelsby's follow-up positions Task as a shift from steely women in Mare of Easttown to struggling single fathers, centering on a crisis of masculinity and male loneliness in Delaware County's blue-collar setting.
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‘Task’ Creator Brad Ingelsby and Stars Tom Pelphrey and Emilia Jones Unpack Episode One: From the Haunting Final Shot to the Bloody Drug House Shoot Out
“Task,” Brad Ingelsby’s follow-up to “Mare of Easttown,” starts out like a slice-of-life drama before erupting in explosive violence in the last half of its first episode. Viewers are introduced to Tom Brandis, a former priest-turned-FBI agent, played by a paunchy Mark Ruffalo. He’s struggling — drinking too much and sleeping too little — clearly haunted by a tragedy that Ingelsby has yet to fully reveal (though it’s known his son is in prison…
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Under cover of polar anchored in a disinherited America, this show on HBO Max paints the poignant portrait of two sick family fathers, an FBI agent on the return and a garbageman who became a robber.
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