SummaryAn FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a Task Force against home invasion robberies in suburban Philadelphia that are being organized by a working-class family man (Tom Pelphrey) in the drama series created by Brad Ingelsby.
Created By:Brad Ingelsby
❮ Task
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Sep 6, 2025
Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
79% Positive
27 Reviews
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21% Mixed
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Sep 5, 2025
100
A master class. .... Pelphrey, his eyes staring into nothingness, and Ruffalo, his shoulders hunched beneath the weight of the world, are outstanding, as are the supporting players, embodying gritty souls caught up in unforgiving machinations — until there is, somehow, some forgiveness. Ingelsby understands that the extremes of the crime genre provide the perfect basis for searing human drama, provided they’re handled with skill and conviction. “Task” has more than enough of both.
Aug 28, 2025
90
The performances, consistently lived-in and assembled by casting director Avy Kaufman, are what weave the many threads into a tapestry. .... Like “Mare” before it, “Task” can be unrelentingly grim, and the shifts in perspective — if not tone — offer something of a reprieve as the walls close in on all the characters.
Sep 8, 2025
83
Where Mare Of Easttown was a show about motherhood, repression, and redemption, Task seems interested in fatherhood, faith, and grief. Those are slightly more common themes for the crime-drama genre. But this premiere suggests Ingelsby has a perspective (and a cast) that could make them feel fresh again.
Sep 8, 2025
80
Even if it doesn’t prove as compulsive viewing as Ingelsby’s previous work, Task is grown-up, sophisticated, well-made drama.
Aug 28, 2025
80
It’s a feedback loop of gloominess, that turns the process of watching early episodes feel like trying to walk up a muddy hill in the middle of a downpour. .... That said, just as Mare came together satisfyingly in the end, the last three episodes of Task are very strong as both suspense and character studies.
Sep 5, 2025
60
What’s frustrating is that while Tom and Robbie’s dance of evasion and investigation gets more predictable, the series’ performances get richer, so Task teeter-totters on an imbalance of story and ensemble.
Sep 8, 2025
40
Task, by contrast [to Mare of Easttown], is relentlessly bleak, humourless and narratively airless.
User score
Generally Favorable
92% Positive
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Dec 8, 2025
8
Task is the kind of series that starts out as “just another HBO cop show” and ends up reminding you why no one does investigative drama like they do. Brad Ingelsby takes the classic cop-and-robber structure and simply twists it into a character study full of pain, guilt, and some very questionable life choices.Ruffalo is... Ruffalo, just as we expect, but Pelphrey and Emilia Jones carry half the series on their shoulders with absurd emotional delivery. And as much as the dark tone sometimes weighs too heavily, it's hard not to get involved with these broken characters trying not to fall apart along with their own ****'s not perfect, it stumbles with subplots and exaggerations, but when it gets it right, Task hits hard. Ultimately, it's one of the best surprises of the year in HBO's catalog.
