TASK
Type: detective story
Direction: Brad Ingelby. With Mark Ruffalo, Tom Perphley, Emilia Jones, Fabien Frankel, Thuso Mbedu, Silvia Dionicio, Ben Lewis Doherty, Jamie McShane. On Sky on demand
Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) is an FBI agent recalled to duty; former priest and former chaplain of the investigative structure, he is put in charge of a task force against robberies and drug dealing; Robbie Prendergast (Tom Perphley) is a garbage collector who gets sucked into dangerous crime ringshunted by both the police and a ruthless gang, the Dark Hearts.
Tasksbroadcast on Sky Atlantic and now available on demand, it is not a normal detective story, but a series that tries to explore the moral abysses of human beings, focusing on faith, its strength and its loss.
Agents Mark Ruffalo and Fabien Frankel in a scene from “Task”.
Produced by Brad Inglesby (already author of Murder in Easttownone of the best crime dramas of recent years) for the HBO channel, the series investigates the two key characters of the story like a game of mirrors: it is in their relationship – even at a distance – that the most intimate meaning of the story is contained: the family dramas, the traumas to overcome, the mourning to process, the failure at the gates.
Tasks it is not a religious series in the aesthetic sense, but has at its center a reflection on faith and its tortuous ways: forgiveness, the search for spirituality, redemption as a longing for shattered lives.
For those who love detective stories that alternate investigations into crimes with human ones.
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