Wooder, houmes , and hoe-gies — those sticky pronunciations of water, homes , and a totally rad sandwich became a national earworm when Brad Ingelsby’s 2021 HBO series Mare of Easttown broke out, featuring Kate Winslet knocking back Rolling Rocks and delivering the Delco, Pennsylvania, sound so indelibly it inspired the Saturday Night Live sketch “ Murder Durdur .” The bit hit in part because the show was so popular (and sure, there’s some class-gazing involved) but also for the fact that it’s a very real way of speaking. Now the accent is back on TV in Task , with Ingelsby, a Delaware County native and at this point the region’s pop-culture laureate, offering up his own spin on Heat . The series follows two ailing men on a collision course: an FBI agent, played by Mark Ruff

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