When "Mare of Easttown" creator Brad Ingelsby pitched HBO execs his newest crime drama, he didn't have the crime, the investigation, or the major story beats figured out. Instead, what he sold was a ...

Task Episode 6 “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a river” opens with an 18-minute-long action set piece and ends on a bittersweet coda. Because of the number of major character ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Last week’s Task was so brutal, you might have found yourself wondering if it was meant to be the end of the HBO crime series. After all, two beloved characters, on ...

Following the success of his HBO limited series Mare of Easttown, Brad Ingelsby had a feeling his next series could draw some star power. So when he delivered the script for his crime drama follow-up ...

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the penultimate episode of Task on HBO. Jamie McShane wasn’t always recruited to play a bad guy. Early on in his nearly 30-year career, McShane says he ...

HBO releases dozens of new shows every year, but the one that stood out in 2025 was Task. The Philadelphia-set crime thriller follows an FBI agent who heads up a task force to put an end to a string ...