Brad Ingelsby has found his niche. After giving us Kate Winslet as a tough Pennsylvania cop in HBO ’s Mare of Easttown a few years back, Ingelsby is going back to the well again with Task , a new HBO crime drama set in the same Pennsylvania backwoods and hitting a lot of the same emotional notes Mare did. The formula works, too: Task — premiering Sunday, Sept. 7 at 9/8c; I’ve seen five of the seven episodes — is a riveting, emotionally intricate saga that fleshes out both sides of the law equally and is packed with powerhouse performances, with a potent vein of raw humanity running through the whole thing.

Mark Ruffalo stars as veteran FBI agent Tom Brandis, who’s assigned to lead a task force to catch a gang of low-level crooks who’ve been putting on Halloween masks and rippi

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