After Task ’s first episode last week, my dad texted me and simply stated: “As a Pennsylvanian, I did not hear an accent.” Really? I asked. Not even when Robbie’s ( Tom Pelphrey ) dream to “ ern his ern island” just fell out of his mouth? “Nope,” my father responded. “Must be used to hearing it.” Sure, dad, and Joel Embiid is going to play all 82 games this season.

So, to force the uninitiated to hear the Delco accent for what it truly is, Task creator Brad Ingelsby wrote a scene in episode 2 where yet another character says a line drowned in Rita’s water ice. “The father- derter dance is Thursday night,” Maeve (Emilia Jones) reminds Robbie. Good grief. Mark Ruffalo was right when he told EW that “it's the craziest dialect I've ever heard.” (And I would know— Task ’

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