Task offers two possible cures for the male-loneliness epidemic: Pick up new pastoral hobbies, such as gardening and birding or, like Robin Hood, form an outlaw band of Merry Men. Brad Ingelsby’s follow-up to the much-beloved Mare of Easttown switches focus from steely women to feeble men. Mare brought the intimate, personal lives of flinty women into focus with just the right mix of humor, trauma, and hope. It bordered on the saccharine at times but usually landed the gloom and doom at just the right moment to remind us that being a cop is inherently a fucked-up business. It worked as a procedural that continued to investigate the afterlife of the victims’ devastated (and sometimes viciously protective) families. I recently forced my partner to watch the entire show in one go durin

See Full Page