{"id":40421,"date":"2025-11-02T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40421"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:24:58","slug":"40421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40421","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Task&#8221; Season One (2025) starring Mark Ruffalo \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z110225zview_task_s1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Task: Season 1&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Created by: <strong>Brad Ingelsby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 1-3; 7) <strong>Brad Ingelsby<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(ep. 4-6) <strong>Brad Ingelsby; <\/strong>story by\u200a <strong>Brad Ingelsby <\/strong>&amp; <strong>Dave Obzud<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directed by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeremiah Zagar <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 1-2; 5; 7)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Salli Richardson Whitfield\u00a0<\/strong>(eps. 3-4; 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Mark Ruffalo, Emilia Jones, Fabien Frankel, Thuso Mbedu, Silvia Dionicio, Ben Lewis Doherty, Tom Pelphrey, Alison Oliver, Sam Keeley, Martha Plimpton, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Ra\u00fal Castillo<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Jamie McShane<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Every force has its equal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom Brandis hasn&#8217;t fully recovered from his wife&#8217;s murder at the hands of their adopted son. When a series of violent drug house robberies continue, Tom is called back to duty. Tom will lead a cross-agency task force made up of county Detective Anthony Grasso, State Trooper Lizzie Stover and city detective Aleah Clinton.\u00a0 What Brandis doesn&#8217;t know is there is a traitor among them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The drug houses taken down are run by the Dark Hearts biker gang.\u00a0 The Dark Hearts are notorious for their brutality. Perry Dorazo, the Dark Hearts Chapter President is getting heat because of the robberies.\u00a0 Dorazo wants the thieves caught so he can make an example of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unknown to either Brandis&#8217; task force or the Dark Hearts, the robberies are the work of Robbie Prendergrast and his friend Cliff Broward. Robbie&#8217;s wife left him a year ago. Before he started the robberies.\u00a0 Robbie needs the cash to support his two young children as well as his dead brother&#8217;s daughter. Robbie and Cliff aren&#8217;t criminal masterminds.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been lucky with inside information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then their luck runs out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a drug house robbery, an unexpected biker shows up.\u00a0 A gunfight ensues.\u00a0 Robbie and Cliff survive.\u00a0 A friend they brought along to assist is killed.\u00a0 So are three Dark Hearts.\u00a0 Robbie and Cliff are about to leave with the cash when the young son of one of the murdered bikers walks in.\u00a0 Refusing to kill a child, they take the kid, the drugs and the cash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The murders and kidnapping are all over the news.\u00a0 The heat is on Brandis&#8217; task force to resolve the case.\u00a0 The Dark Hearts have made finding Robbie and Cliff top priority.\u00a0 Robbie and Cliff know their time is running out.\u00a0 They need to fence the drugs.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll then use the cash to get far away with the kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s now a race.\u00a0 Will Robbie and Cliff escape?\u00a0 If they Dark Hearts get to them first, they will suffer a slow tortuous death.\u00a0 If the task force captures them, it&#8217;ll be prison and the Dark Hearts will still get to them.<\/p>\n<p>The clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Task<\/em> is well done.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got interesting subplots and twists that will keep the viewer on edge.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ruffalo has never been better.\u00a0 Jamie McShane is always excellent.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to season 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Task: Season 1&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>(2025) earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z110225zview_task_s1b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Task: Season 1&#8221; (2017) Created by: Brad Ingelsby Teleplay by: (eps. 1-3; 7) Brad Ingelsby (ep. 4-6) Brad Ingelsby; story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40424,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421\/revisions\/40424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}