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Late one night, Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) is out with his friends, laughing. There’s an anxious tremor echoing through the car — Cliff (Raúl Castillo), sitting shotgun, can’t hide his nerves — but it only ...

HBO‘s next big Sunday night drama Task, premiering Sunday, September 7, is a crime show obsessed with making things right. Struggling trash man Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey) organizes Robin ...

Questions of forgiveness hang over much of Task, the new HBO crime drama from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby: its possibility, its purpose, its outermost limits. It’s no wonder, considering ...

There's no real mystery for us to solve here: We know who did the crime, and why. But we're invested anyway, because Ingelsby's writing gets us emotionally involved by humanizing both the cops and the ...

Brad Ingelsby’s “Task” is a suffocating watch, full of the continual sense that catastrophe is waiting right out of frame. It’s also one of the most well-acted shows of the year, transcending rather ...

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