Questions of forgiveness hang over much of Task , the new HBO crime drama from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby : its possibility, its purpose, its outermost limits. It’s no wonder, considering how many of its characters endure or perpetuate the sort of suffering that can make mercy seem impossibly out of reach.

Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly faithless, absent or dead. Parents, even the well-meaning ones, tend to be neglectful, or also dead. Friends can lie, colleagues can backstab, anyone can die in any number of brutal ways. Innocent children, trusting and helpless, absorb the consequences.

Questions of forgiveness hang over much of Task , the new HBO crime drama from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby : its possibility, its purpose, its o

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