I just want to state for the record that the least interesting thing you could possibly talk about regarding Task is the accents. Are they good, bad, indifferent? I honestly can’t imagine caring! Think of how many shows set in England or some fantasy equivalent thereof you watch, with actors from America and Canada and Australia and New Zealand and Ireland or just other regions of England on them. You think all of them are constantly nailing it? I doubt it! But if you made me list the 300 most interesting things in Game of Thrones, “Peter Dinklage’s accent was so-so” wouldn’t make the cut. Believe it or not, they’re not actually stabbing each other with swords either. Go with the flow a bit!
What is more interesting to talk about than that? Oh, I don’t know. Robbie insisting they listen to the radio during an abduction. Perry slamming the door in his girlfriend’s face to hide the wounds he incurred during the struggle with Eryn hard enough to give her a lump on the head. Director Jeremiah Zagar spotlighting some of the local flora and fauna like this is a season of The White Lotus set in Delaware County.
The grin on Freddy Frias’s lying face. The way Tom poorly fakes peeing by pouring the remnants of a half-drunk can of Pepsi into the toilet, one plop at a time. Robbie pulling over to piss in an echo of the earlier scene. The closeup on Eryn’s eyes as she sees Jayson come home covered in blood. Everyone, including the bad guys, seemingly genuinely interested in making sure Sam doesn’t get killed. Kath pigging out during the hunt for Tom, getting called on it, and claiming to be “an emotional eater.”
My favorite? Tom literally finding his way out of the woods and back to civilization. No, not civilization — community. What he finds at that beach are families and couples laughing, playing, enjoying nature and each other. When you abandon your calling for love, then that love is ended by your own adopted son, then you find solace in a bottle, then you’re called out of semi-retirement to find a missing kid, then you’re held at gunpoint fully expecting to die — when all that happens, imagine how hard the sight of a child laughing in her mother’s arms in the sunlight would hit. Because Task is the show it is, you don’t really have to imagine.
I reviewed last night’s Task for Decider.
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