HBO drops new trailer for ‘Task’ featuring Mark Ruffalo hunting down Tom Pelphrey in the Philly suburbs

Brad Ingelsby, the Mare of Easttown creator has traded in Kate Winslet’s vape pen and Wawa hoagies for Mark Ruffalo’s badge and a string of drug house robberies in Task, his newest HBO limited series set right here in the Philadelphia region. The seven-episode run premieres Sunday, September 7th at 9 p.m., and we just got the full trailer.

Task | Official Trailer | HBO Max

Mark Ruffalo stars as FBI agent Tom Brandis, a guy coming back to the field after a family tragedy, reluctantly joining a task force to hunt down a crew hitting drug stash houses across the city.

The prime suspect is Tom Pelphrey (Ozark, Outer Range), playing Robbie, a seemingly normal family man who’s actually the one pulling off these robberies in a skeleton mask, telling himself it’s all to “give his family a better life.”

Translation: Delco Robin Hood with a shotgun.

The trailer gives us everything you’d want in a Philly crime drama. There’s tense standoffs, late-night stakeouts, and a full-blown chase scene through Wissahickon Valley Park, where crews were spotted filming last summer.

The FBI’s goal here is to shut this down before it turns into a full-on turf war over city drug territory.

This isn’t Ingelsby’s first rodeo. The Berwyn native and Villanova grad already proved with Mare that he knows how to make our corner of the world feel both familiar and dangerous, Delco accent and all. This time, he’s teamed up with South Philly’s own Jeremiah Zagar, the guy behind Adam Sandler’s Netflix hit Hustle, to direct.

The Cast for Task

Stacked Cast: Emilia Jones (CODA), Jamie McShane (Wednesday), Sam Keeley, Thuso Mbedu, plus Ruffalo and Pelphrey squaring off in what looks like an old-school game of cat-and-mouse.

In true Ingelsby fashion, the filming locations are basically a love letter to the region — if your idea of a love letter includes Ridley Township, Marcus Hook, and the Italian Market. Other scenes were shot in Aston, Upper Chichester, Chadds Ford, a Media courthouse, and spots across Montgomery, Chester, and Northampton counties.

Yes, Ralph’s Italian Restaurant makes an appearance.

Weekly HBO drops starting September 7th.

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