"Mare had put Delco-and particularly the near-indescribable thick Delco accent that sounds as if the South had an Italian-American baby with Baltimore-on the map. But where Mare was a whodunnit unfolding in the context of one family's generational maternal tensions, Task provides something of the opposite: an examination of paternal strife in a noir-esque crime show that tells you who's doing the misdeeds from the jump."
"Here, we watch as FBI Agent Tom Brandis (Ruffalo) attempts to bring together a task force to catch a group of people robbing a local drug-slinging biker gang and leaving a trail of bodies behind. Hidden to Brandis but in full view for us is the face behind those robberies: a grieving and adrift single father of two, Robbie Prendergrast (Pelphrey), who works as a local refuse collector."
"Though Task makes a meal of class disparities, violence, and the malaise of feeling "stuck" in a small hometown that suffocates you, the show is also steeped in ruminations on faith, remorse, and healing.Those more positive themes are felt the most strongly in the show's final hour, the seventh episode, titled "A Still Small Voice.""
Task is a contemplative crime drama set in Delaware County (Delco), Pennsylvania, starring Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey. The series inverts a previous Delco whodunnit by revealing the perpetrator from the start and focusing on paternal strife rather than maternal tensions. FBI agent Tom Brandis assembles a task force to stop a series of robberies and killings linked to a biker-run drug operation. The crimes are committed by Robbie Prendergrast, a grieving single father and refuse collector. The show examines class disparities, violence, and the suffocating malaise of small-town life while probing faith, remorse, and the possibility of healing, culminating in the finale titled "A Still Small Voice."
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