This week on Operation Recap HBO’s Task, we ask why Task isn’t called Dads of Delco or Maeve of Easttown, or even, For Fifty-Year-Old Men, By Fifty Year Old Men, and actually deliver an answer that we heard on another podcast. BUT, don’t worry - you are getting fresh insights here, when we break down the major question mark of this episode: who are the moles?
We know Jayson-with-a-y’s girlfriend Eryn-with-a-y is the real reason Robbie and Cliff were able to target Sam’s parents’ drug house, but we don’t know who on the task force is feeding info to the Dark Hearts. Could it be Lizzie, who would be the first deer killed by traffic in Sam’s fever dream because she’d be blinded by the lights; or Aleah, who reveals herself to have more in common with the witness she’s interrogating than with her fellow task brats? Or could it be Grasso, who is a dude who knows how to speak dude, but also mentioned crooked cops while giving a public toast to Lizzie in a cop bar, which smacks of things that make you go hmmm. (It also felt like a deleted scene from Top Gun.) TMAYF’s Matt is not convinced that the always excellent Martha Plimpton would have been cast in this show if her character as FBI chief was only meant to be retiring. (Very good point!)
We also discuss Robbie and Maeve’s incredible scene work in the car, along with Maeve and Sam’s when she adorably teaches him a valuable lesson imparted by this podcast: you can transcend the mistakes your parents made when they fucked you up in childhood, as long as you learn how to float (hopefully!).
We’d be remiss not to mention that we meet Tom’s son Ethan in this episode when Emily goes to visit him in jail, and we pick back up with a drunk and concussed Tom as he admits he’s still too angry to see him and doesn’t think he can forgive.
We know sad things will happen soon because we get an audial appearance by the anthemic opening of Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns, the Gen X anthem by the ill-fated Seattle band Mother Love Bone, which includes two founding members of Pearl Jam. It’s also probably Sean Penn and this music supervisor’s favorite band to smoke a fresh pack to.
Join us next week for Ep 4!
Erin, Elizabeth and Matt
