"Fiction series and feature films leave no room for half measures: either the greatest winners are dissected or the misadventures of the losers are chronicled; mediocrity is left to the vast majority of viewers, including critics. Task, a series with seven episodes in its first season, is included among the losers, with an additional detail: the depressive atmosphere that conditions the lives of all its protagonists, something that is becoming common in the creations of Brad Ingelsby, responsible for the excellent Mare of Easttown."
"Task is set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, where two criminals run an operation robbing the homes of small-time drug dealers. A depressed FBI agent, Mark Ruffalo, is assigned to track them down after being relegated to a bureaucratic desk job by his superiors. The problem with robbing small-time fentanyl dealers comes, of course, when they unwittingly steal from a not-so-small dealer, who naturally tries to recover what was stolen."
Task is a seven-episode HBO Max series set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia that follows two criminals who rob the homes of small-time drug dealers. The criminals inadvertently steal from a larger dealer, provoking retaliation from a biker gang while attracting the attention of a depressed FBI agent reassigned from field work to a bureaucratic desk job. The series emphasizes a depressive atmosphere across all protagonists, a recurrent tonal choice in Brad Ingelsby’s work. The narrative positions the criminals between an inexperienced federal taskforce and violent criminal reprisals, underscoring systemic failures and personal malaise.
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