Task
HBO | Release Date: September 7, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The TelegraphAnita Singh Sep 8, 2025
Season 1 Review: Ruffalo and Pelphrey are fine actors who elicit sympathy for their characters, and you will root for both them if you stick it out for the full seven episodes. But the pace is slow and the set-up too long. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Roxana HadadiSep 5, 2025
Season 1 Review: What’s frustrating is that while Tom and Robbie’s dance of evasion and investigation gets more predictable, the series’ performances get richer, so Task teeter-totters on an imbalance of story and ensemble. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: [Pelphrey's] frazzled and desperate performance outshines everything else in Ingelsby’s latest, and if it can’t compensate for the show’s shortcomings, it nonetheless makes it worth sticking with until (almost) the end. Read full review
50
TheWrapZaki HasanSep 5, 2025
Season 1 Review: In the end, “Task” is neither disaster nor triumph. It’s a competent crime drama elevated by its lead performances, but one that rarely rises above its formula. HBO has built its reputation on redefining the genre; here, it’s content to simply reheat it. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: Task’s suspense sequences, as in a home invasion and a protracted chase through a forest, are nothing short of gripping. But as the character-driven panorama that the series spends most of its time trying to be, Task focuses on all the wrong things, with broad traits used to sketch its characters, who are mostly saddled with quirky backstories. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: That Task has no answers for the biggest existential questions it raises, about the purpose of suffering or what we’re meant to do with it, is no big sin. That makes it admirably ambitious and touchingly human. That the show gets so lost in the misery that it seems to forget why it went looking for it in the first place is the letdown. Read full review
40
The GuardianLucy ManganSep 8, 2025
Season 1 Review: Task, by contrast [to Mare of Easttown], is relentlessly bleak, humourless and narratively airless. Read full review
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