{"id":87102,"date":"2025-10-20T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/87102\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:40:10","slug":"task-finale-hbo-drama-declared-best-show-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/87102\/","title":{"rendered":"Task finale: HBO drama declared \u2018best show of the year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Task on HBO reached its dramatic season one conclusion on Sunday after seven widely praised episodes.<\/a><\/p>\n

The series written by Brad Ingelsby, the creator of Mare of Easttown, saw Mark Ruffalo\u2019s Tom Brandis lead a task force of FBI agents investigating a series of violent robberies of drug houses. In tandem, it followed one of the robbers, Robbie (Tom Pelphrey)<\/a> \u2014 a single parent, living in rural Pennsylvania with his kids and his niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones).<\/p>\n

*Warning \u2014 Major spoilers for \u2018Task\u2019 ahead*<\/p>\n

Episode seven, titled \u201cA Still Small Voice,\u201d saw the tension between the task force and the Dark Harts biker gang finally explode after a series of betrayals and tragedies. Jayson (Sam Keeley) fatally stabs Perry (Jamie McShane) after discovering that he murdered his lover, Eryn (Margarita Levieva). Jayson then manages to track down Maeve, to whom Robbie sent the Dark Harts\u2019 drug money after he was killed in episode six.<\/p>\n

Agent Grasso (Fabien Frankel), who was revealed to be working with the Dark Harts, is critically wounded in an attempt on his life by the biker gang. Bleeding, he drives to Maeve’s home to help save her from Jayson’s attack, as do Tom and Aleah (Thuso Mbedu). Grasso eventually manages to shoot Jayson in the head, avenging Lizzie\u2019s (Alison Oliver) death.<\/p>\n

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Mark Ruffalo and Thuso Mbedu in the ‘Task’ season one finale (Peter Kramer\/HBO)<\/p>\n

On X, fans of the show heaped praises on the cast and production of the new series, calling it a \u201ccinematic masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTask culminated in a beautiful finale about forgiveness, sacrifice and healing from trauma. absolutely one of the best shows of the year,\u201d one viewer raved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Task finale was so full of tension and catharsis. beautiful beautifullll performances! I don’t think any other series this year can top this one for me,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeven episodes of cinematic masterpiece…easily one of hbo\u2019s finest!!\u201d Added a third.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a FABULOUS finale of Task,\u201d wrote a fourth, \u201ca wonderful, gripping, intense show about the human condition deserving of several Emmy nods. More TV like this, please.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Set in the working class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey) (HBO)<\/p>\n

In his four-star review for The Independent<\/a>, Nick Hilton singled out Ruffalo\u2019s performance in the series, which seems all but nailed on for an Emmy nomination next year.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Ruffalo] has that rare ability to appear both suave and schlubby,\u201d writes Hilton. \u201cHe can play an intellectual, an everyman, or something in between. His reticent detective employs a sprinkling of all these dynamics, at times a charismatic field agent, at others a mournful introvert.\u201d<\/p>\n

HBO has not yet renewed Task for a second season; however, while speaking to Esquire<\/a> earlier this month, Ingelsby said he would \u201clove to have a chance to do another season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people respond to Task and keep responding to Task, I’d love to tell more stories about this place, because I love writing about this place,\u201d he said. \u201cI do feel like I have more stories to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

All episodes of Task are now streaming on HBO Max in the U.S. and NOW in the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-87102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}