HBO on Sunday followed up its successful limited series Mare of Easttown with another crime drama set in a working class Philadelphia called Task . The series from Mare creator Brad Ingelsby stars Mark Ruffalo as the head of an FBI task force who’s called upon to investigate a string of violent robberies led by a family man named Robbie ( A Man in Full ‘s Tom Pelphrey ).

Here, Ingelsby and Pelphrey, together with CODA ‘s Emilia Jones (Robbie’s niece Maeve) address the first episode and what viewers can expect from the next six episodes.

DEADLINE Brad, I don’t know if anyone’s ever described a task force as sexy or particularly riveting, but you built a whole limited series around one. Why?

BRAD INGELSBY Well, I love the idea of a group of people who are really differe

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