For the last two months, I have been obsessing over the TV show Task on HBO. It brought back Sunday night viewing and was a riveting crime series set in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was created by Brad Ingelsby and starred Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelphrey, and a bunch of other incredible actors. It had a cat and mouse structure, with Ruffalo's FBI character chasing Pelphrey's ex-biker character. The show, which lasted seven episodes, kept these characters apart for the first few. We just had a bunch of simmering tension while they hunted each other. But the fifth episode sent them crashing into one another.In it, we got this amazing car ride where both characters have a chance to sit and talk. It revealed the heart and soul of the narrative and also showed us that these two men are not that different when it all boils down to it. In order to get those performances and hit that moment hard, writer and creator Brad Ingelsby was thinking about a specific Michael Mann movie, Heat. Let's dive in. What Task and Heat Have in Common What I love about Heat is that it's also a cat and mouse movie, where Al Pacino's cop chases Robert DeNiro's robber. And then they come careening into each other in a tense and landmark diner scene. Now, in order to build tension both on and off screen, Michael Mann kept those actors apart on set when he was filming, something that inspired Ingelsby to do...
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