"Do you feel it? There is a ripple in the firmament, a vibration in the foundations, a bracing of the cosmos yes, Mark Ruffalo is preparing to Act again. This time, he stars in crime drama Task, created by Mare of Easttown's Brad Inglesby, as a former priest turned FBI agent nursing a great sorrow in the suitably grey environs of suburban Philadelphia. Tom Brandis ends every day in a drunken semi-stupor and begins every morning with prayer and a head-dunk into an ice-filled sink. Do you think we might be in for a meditation on guilt, sin and the possibility of redemption? Yes, I wearily agree."
"Brandis is assigned to a new taskforce to investigate a series of armed break-ins at drug houses owned by the Dark Hearts biker gang, in the hope that arrests can be made before Philly is consumed by a turf war. He has three youngsters to help him: the charmingly arrogant, Catholic-raised Anthony (Fabien Frankel); the supremely competent Aleah (Thuso Mbedu); and the supremely incompetent Lizzie (Alison Oliver)."
Mark Ruffalo portrays Tom Brandis, a former priest turned FBI agent who is mourning a great sorrow and drinking heavily while maintaining ritualistic prayer. His reassignment off desk duties appears linked to an upcoming sentencing hearing for a third-degree murder conviction at which his daughter Emily may give a family impact statement. Brandis joins a taskforce investigating armed break-ins at drug houses run by the Dark Hearts biker gang to avert a turf war in Philadelphia. He is paired with three younger agents who are defined by single traits, allowing Brandis to display priestly counsel, generosity, and patience. The plot delays full explanation of who killed whom, producing a sense of manipulative withholding.
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