If there’s anything that seems to preoccupy the TV work of writer-director Brad Ingelsby more than his native Philadelphia, it’s the wages of sin passed down from parents to children. Ingelsby entered HBO’s roster of auteurs with the 2021 series “Mare of Easttown,” for which Kate Winslet won an Emmy for her portrait of a grief-stricken cop looking into a young woman’s murder. Mare herself was in mourning for her son, who died by suicide before the events of the show; the case’s resolution — spoiler alert for a half-decade-old mystery — hinged on the child of Mare’s best friend and the violent lessons he learned from his father.

With the limited series “ Task ,” Ingelsby once again returns to Philly’s exurban environs to follow a law enforcement officer in the long aftermath of a loss. B

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