{"id":11560,"date":"2026-07-09T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:48:23","slug":"task-season-2-adds-julianne-nicholson-reprising-her-mare-of-easttown-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/task-season-2-adds-julianne-nicholson-reprising-her-mare-of-easttown-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Season 2 Adds Julianne Nicholson, Reprising Her Mare Of Easttown Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/task-season-2-adds-julianne-nicholson-reprising-her-mare-of-easttown-role.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA_divider__FIEES\" \/><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite sharing a creator (Brad Ingelsby), a setting (Delaware County, Pennsylvania), and a vibe (blue-collar suburban crime-thriller), HBO&#8217;s <em>Mare Of Easttown<\/em> and <em>Task<\/em> have, up until now, existed in their own separate prestige TV universes. But all of that is about to change as the upcoming Task Season 2&#8217;s latest casting announcement has teed up an unexpected but very welcome crossover. As reported by <em>Variety<\/em>, <em>Mare<\/em> star Julianne Nicholson is set to reprise the Emmy-winning role of Lori Ross in <em>Task<\/em>&#8216;s sophomore outing.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>In Ingelsby&#8217;s critically acclaimed <em>Mare Of Easttown<\/em>, Nicholson&#8217;s Lori was introduced as a mother of three who is best friend to Kate Winslet&#8217;s police detective Mare, and whose own son was embroiled in that series&#8217; central murder investigation. But while whispers of a second trip to Easttown have persisted in the years since the series&#8217; 2021 release, we&#8217;ve yet to see Lori \u2014 or Mare, for that matter \u2014 return to our screens. How exactly Nicholson&#8217;s character will factor into <em>Task<\/em> Season 2, and to what extent her journey and that of Mark Ruffalo&#8217;s embattled FBI Agent Tom Brandis will overlap, very much remains to be seen. But with the new season&#8217;s logline teasing that Brandis is set to head up a new task force this time out, it isn&#8217;t outside of the realms of possibility that Easttown could be where he&#8217;s headed next, or at the very least be a place he stops by for a while as he passes through. Confirmation of the crossover alone is enough to fuel wild speculation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Julianne Nicholson isn&#8217;t the only new face heading for <em>Task<\/em>&#8216;s second season, either. Mahershala Ali, Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis, Aminah Nieves, and Edgar Ramirez are all contributing to the veritable constellation of stars Ingelsby has assembled for his show&#8217;s return. And heck, who knows? Maybe now that Nicholson has crossed over we might see Winslet&#8217;s Mare herself taken to <em>Task<\/em> before long. The world&#8217;s unlikeliest <em>Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind<\/em> reunion is on \u2014 watch this space!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite sharing a creator (Brad Ingelsby), a setting (Delaware County, Pennsylvania), and a vibe (blue-collar suburban crime-thriller), HBO&#8217;s Mare Of Easttown and Task have, up until now, existed in their own separate prestige TV universes. But all of that is about to change as the upcoming Task Season 2&#8217;s latest casting announcement has teed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11562,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions\/11562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}