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Task – Season 1, Episode 1 Crossings

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Task – Season 1, Episode 1

Crossings

Aired Sep 7, 2025

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Forced back into the field after a family tragedy, special agent Tom Brandis leads a new task force investigating a string of robberies.

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Caroline Siede

AV Club

Sep 19

B+

If Mare [Of Easttown] was a murder mystery anchored in a character study, Task is a character study that just happens to feature crime.

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Grace Byron

New York Magazine/Vulture

Sep 8

3/5

The premiere has a lot to set up in terms of the chase that will come in the proceeding episodes, it’s the crisis of masculinity and male loneliness that is the strongest current running through Task.

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Jonathon Wilson

Ready Steady Cut

Sep 18

4/5

With some TV shows, you can just tell they’re good. I don’t mean “decent”, either – I mean properly, prestige, talk-of-the-town good.

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

Sep 14

9/10

The way “Crossings” is shot is unlike any version of this story you’ve seen before. Philly-born director Jeremiah Zagar (We the Animals, Hustle) brings his low-angled shots and vérité shooting to the series.

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Carissa Pavlica

TV Fanatic

Sep 8

3.25/5

At 66 minutes, the premiere feels like it desperately wants to be taken seriously, but instead of pulling us into the heart of its story, it circles around the same point again and again: Tom and Robbie are alike. Very alike. Practically the same man.

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Synopsis

Forced back into the field after a family tragedy, special agent Tom Brandis leads a new task force investigating a string of robberies.

Creator: Brad Ingelsby
Executive Producer: Jeremiah Zagar, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Mark Roybal, David Crockett, Ron Schmidt, Mark Ruffalo
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 7, 2025