‘Task’ Season 2 Adds Mahershala Ali to Mark Ruffalo’s HBO Crime Thriller

According to Variety, Mahershala Ali, a two-time Oscar winner, will join the second season of Task in a significant role. He’ll play Eddie Barnes, an experienced and highly-regarded DEA agent working in Philadelphia, whose team gets caught up in the central case of the season. He’ll star alongside Mark Ruffalo, who plays FBI agent Tom Brandis. HBO hasn’t revealed many details about the case yet, but they’ve said that as Brandis leads a new task force, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine who they are actually investigating.








