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The HBO series Task is a grim, but if you stick with it, a stealthily hopeful drama from the creator of Mayor of East Town.

Like Mayor, it's set in the Philly suburbs and features a great cast hurtling themselves against the Philly regional accent.

But where Mayor was a murder mystery, Task is a cat and mouse crime thriller featuring Mark Ruffalo as a world-weary FBI agent reluctantly dragged back into the field to investigate a series of crimes among rival gangs.

There's drugs, stolen money, family drama, kidnapping, shootouts, grief, forgiveness, and of course, Woodrowice. This is NPR's

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