It’s been more than four years since Brad Inglesby took audiences on a visit to Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with Mare of Easttown . But the screenwriter never left, having decamped from Hollywood for the native Philadelphia suburbs which have essentially become his muse. On Sunday night, he and HBO dropped the first of his seven-episode return in Task . And while it’s a wildly different story from its Emmy-winning predecessor, the shared DNA was paramount to him.

“It’s not cost effective to shoot here,” says Inglesby, Zooming from his home not far from both series’ sets. “It’s more expensive than going to upstate New York or Pittsburg — but we’ve always agreed that if we’re going to make a show about this place, we have to do it here.”

It’s been more than four years sinc

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