For his HBO follow-up to Mare of Easttown, writer Brad Ingelsby doesn’t stray far with Task, another police procedural laced with familial drama that’s set in a Pennsylvania neighborhood where kids work at Rita’s during the summer and no one knows how to properly pronounce the word “water.”
This time around, Mark Ruffalo is the miserable law enforcement officer balancing professional and domestic troubles, although it’s Tom Pelphrey as a tormented thief in a mess of his own making who truly invigorates these otherwise by-the-books proceedings. His frazzled and desperate performance outshines everything else in Ingelsby’s latest, and if it can’t compensate for the show’s shortcomings, it nonetheless makes it worth sticking with until (almost) the end.
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