We’re nonetheless ready to seek out out if the wonderful HBO sequence Mare of Easttown will ever get a second season, however the community’s new present Process seems, feels and appears like the following neatest thing. That’s as a result of it’s from Mare’s creator, Brad Ingelsby, who wrote all the present’s seven glorious episodes.
Like Mare, Process is a criminal offense drama set in working-class Pennsylvania. Mark Ruffalo stars as Tom, a former priest-turned-FBI agent who’s investigating a sequence of more and more violent robberies involving Robbie (Tom Pelphrey). Each cop and robber are comparable — they’re nonetheless recovering from the lack of a liked one and really feel misplaced and empty. That doesn’t deter them from doing what they should do to outlive, which units up a lethal cat-and-mouse recreation.
Process is a terrific thriller, but it surely’s additionally an engrossing character research of blue-collar professionals simply making an attempt to get by. The present’s ethical compass isn’t black and white however relatively shades of grey — Tom isn’t an angel, and Robbie is extra sympathetic than you may assume. Process is the proper present to binge-watch this fall — it’s an clever, chilly drama which you can’t cease watching, even when some tense moments make you need to look away.
