How Do You Top Mare of Easttown? |
You will remember the last series Brad Ingelsby created for HBO: The hit series Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet as a detective investigating a murder outside Philadelphia. The critically acclaimed show earned 16 Emmy nominations and won four, including best actress in a limited series for Winslet. (Sadly, there is still no category for best Pennsylvania accent.) Now, Ingelsby has returned to his home turf with his new HBO drama series, Task. “It’s where I live now, it’s where I grew up, it’s where I was raised, and it’s where a lot of the important relationships in my life were formed,” he tells Vanity Fair. “It’s also a place that I feel like I can speak about and write about with some conviction and authority.” Task, set in working-class suburbs outside of Philadelphia, follows FBI agent Tom Brandis (played by Mark Ruffalo) as he heads up a task force to end a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man. Rebecca Ford has your exclusive first look at the series today.
Elsewhere in our Hollywood coverage today, Lea Michele says yet again that, despite the ridiculous rumors, she can read, for God’s sake; Seth Rogen stops by our Little Gold Men podcast to talk about the wild chaos of The Studio; Little Gold Men launches a summer book club devoted to tomes that have been adapted for movies this fall; and Angela Bassett speaks on what she wore to the Met Gala and the powerful effect it had on her. |
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