‘Task’ Episode 4 With Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelphrey, Brad Ingelsby, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield! Plus, ‘One Battle After Another’ Is Timely and Timeless.

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Chris and Andy talk about seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ and the surprisingly prophetic nature of its story (3:25). Then, they break down the fourth episode of ‘Task’ (17:39), before they’re joined by stars Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey, creator Brad Ingelsby, and director Salli Richardson-Whitfield for a live event at Vidiots to discuss how they went about portraying Philly culture, the inevitable collision of Robbie's and Tom’s story lines, creating the visual palette for the show, and much more (45:25). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Watch’ and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Guests: Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelphrey, Brad Ingelsby, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Video Producer: Jon Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I need sports to have to clear the room.
0:03.6	Stand up and walk now.
0:06.2	Hello and welcome to The Watch.
0:08.2	My name is Chris Ryan.
0:09.5	I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio, don't mind me, dark hearts.
0:16.6	Just putting a little Linda Thompson on here at the bar.
0:19.9	It's 80 Greenwald!
0:22.4	Did you take that as proof that you would do well at Lefties,
0:25.6	that they were playing, you know, shoot out the lights or whatever?
0:28.6	Well, I do think that we have a situation on Task,
0:31.6	which we're going to be talking about today on the Watch,
0:33.5	where the musical supervision is perhaps outpacing the taste of the characters.
0:38.9	But we will get to that.
0:40.4	We're going to get to a lot of things about Task.
0:42.8	Andy, last night, you and I had the pleasure of hosting a panel talk at Vidyates,
0:47.8	featuring Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelfrey, Brad Inglesby,
0:51.1	and last night's episode's director, Sally Richardson Whitfield.
0:55.6	And we're going to play that in the second half of this episode. So you have some task
0:59.7	talk coming from the people who made it. And then we're also just going to break down the
1:04.6	episode a little bit here. And if there's any headlines you want to talk about, tariffs,
1:09.6	you know, Apple withholding the servant, whatever hot button issues you want to address? Is it the servant or the savant? Oh, it's the savant. They have another show called The Servant. They've got many shows. They also have two other Jessica Chastain shows like in the hopper. Do they really? Oh, they've been greenlit. There's like an art world one. Oh. She stays working for them. So she's like, I didn't, we weren't aligned on this one, but. How are you late night rock and roll Sunday night for us? Listen, it was great. We had a really good time. Kaya, Kai, the whole team, they showed up. They showed out. Yeah. Someone said from HBO was like, you guys have a great team. And I said, Chris has a great team. Yeah. just part of that team. You're part of my team. I'm the long snapper. You know, you elevated me for game day. That was, that was really fun. Everybody kind of schlepped out to my neighborhood. Yeah. It was, I would say, just a little extra color for the everyone's going to get to listen to it.
2:01.2	I thought we had a good talk with those guys.
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