Mark Ruffalo can explain why he looks so emotionally unmoored as Philadelphia FBI agent Tom Brandis in HBO’s drama "Task" (premiering Sept. 7, Sundays at 9 ET/PT).
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Hulk star, 57, had entered a turbulent Pennsylvania world created by Berwyn-born Brad Ingelsby: The gritty series is set in the same Delaware County — known locally as Delco — suburbs as Ingelsby's 2021 Emmy-winning series "Mare of Easttown."
“I’ve been in the ICU,” Ruffalo says, before quickly clarifying. “That’s the Brad Ingelsby Cinematic Universe.”
In "Mare," British Oscar-winner Kate Winslet eschewed makeup and unceremoniously ate a Philly cheesesteak as a world-weary police detective and former high school basketball star.
Ruffalo's priest-turned-FBI-agent grieves the murder of his wife, while heading a task force seeking Robbie (Tom Pelphrey), the unlikely perpetrator of violent drug-money robberies.
