Idon’t know how TV creator and writer Brad Ingelsby sleeps, but he is somehow able to put his characters through unimaginable hell and then rest his head on the pillow at night. Don’t get me wrong, I love Task — and I enjoyed Mare of Easttown , too— but this is dark TV . Maybe, it’s just Ingelsby’s own brand of revenge against Philadelphia. The Eagles couldn’t win the Super Bowl in 2023 when he started working on Task , so now Mark Ruffalo’s grieving, overworked detective must learn to live with the fact that his adopted son pushed his wife down the stairs resulting in her death. If only Jalen Hurts and co. got it together sooner, we might have been watching Ingelsby’s first romantic comedy on HBO Sunday nights.
Instead, we’re watching episode 3 of Task , and it’s anothe