Task on HBO’s last episode is this week. What did it all mean?

This article contains spoilers for Task .

When Brad Ingelsby, creator of HBO’s 2021 hit crime drama Mare of Easttown , sat down to do his next series, he knew he wanted to return to the same place—Delaware County (Delco), Pennsylvania, abutting the southwest side of Philadelphia. But he had another, more contemplative type of crime story in mind. This is how Task , Ingelsby’s current HBO drama starring Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey, was born.

Mare had put Delco—and particularly the near-indescribable thick Delco accent that sounds as if the South had an Italian-American baby with Baltimore—on the map. But where Mare was a whodunnit unfolding in the context of one family’s generational maternal tensions, Task provides something of the opposite: an examination of paternal stri