""What Michael Mann was able to do, in my opinion, was you wanted Robert De Niro to get away, and you wanted Al Pacino to get him," said Ingelsby on the podcast. "You knew those two things couldn't coexist, and so the tension was, 'Oh my God, what's going to happen? Because I love them both.' And I wanted the same for this show.""
"Like with " Heat," the fact that the two characters eventually come face to face isn't a spoiler, but the focus of the " Task" marketing and trailer. Whereas "Mare" was a whodunit, Ingelsby entered the "Task" writing process knowing the tension propelling the story forward was the audience nervously anticipating the inevitable collision of FBI Agent Tom Brandis ( Mark Ruffalo) and the masked bandit Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey)."
"But unlike "Heat," Tom, the former priest turned FBI agent, and Robbie, the trash collector taking down a biker gang's drug houses, are hardly masters of their trade. "Task" executive producer and director Jeremiah Zagar told IndieWire that while developing the series with Ingelsby, they'd joke, "If 'Heat' was about the best cop and criminal in the world, ours were just about the worst.""
Task is a seven-episode, working-class crime miniseries set in a small town outside Philadelphia presented as a 'working-class Heat.' The series creates tension by making viewers root for both a pursuing FBI agent and a charismatic masked bandit, knowing their confrontation is inevitable. The structure draws heavy inspiration from Michael Mann's Heat, emphasizing emotional conflict over plot twists. The protagonists are not masters of their crafts: the FBI agent is a former priest and the bandit is a trash collector targeting a biker gang's drug houses. The series intentionally portrays both leads as flawed and less expert than classic cop-and-criminal archetypes.
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