{"id":1522936,"date":"2026-07-09T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=2126b3a4ad5683a22285734f78894f29"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:45:59","slug":"julianne-nicholson-to-reprise-mare-of-easttown-role-in-task-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1522936","title":{"rendered":"Julianne Nicholson to reprise &#8216;Mare of Easttown&#8217; role in &#8216;Task&#8217; season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/ed6f8ca96a0cb9d8713c6e977fe47a8c.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Julianne Nicholson attends the world premiere of 'Paradise' season 2 in LA on Feb. 18, 2026. (Disney\/Ser Baffo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Julianne Nicholson has been cast in season 2 of <em>Task<\/em>.<\/p><p>The actress is set to reprise her <em>Mare of Easttown<\/em> role as Lori Ross in the upcoming season of <em>Task<\/em>, ABC Audio has confirmed.<\/p><p>This directly connects the shows <em>Task<\/em> and <em>Mare of Easttown<\/em>. Both were created by Brad Ingelsby and take place in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Now they exist in the same universe.<\/p><p>Nicholson won an Emmy in 2021 for portraying Lori Ross, a mother of three children who resides in Easttown, in <em>Mare of Easttown<\/em>.<\/p><p>Season 2 of <em>Task<\/em> follows star Mark Ruffalo once again taking on the role of Agent Tom Brandis.<\/p><p>\"Tom Brandis takes the helm of a new task force, but the deeper the operation runs, the harder it is to tell who's the target,\" according to the season's official logline.<\/p><p>Also starring are Mahershala Ali as Eddie Barnes, Harry Melling as Brennan Boylan, Adam Nagaitis as Luke Clemmons, Aminah Nieves as Nataly Zamora and Edgar Ram\u00edrez as Miguel Contreras.<\/p><p>In addition to creating the show, Ingelsby serves as its writer, showrunner and executive producer. Ruffalo also executive produces. <em>Task<\/em> season 2 is currently in preproduction, according to HBO.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julianne Nicholson attends the world premiere of &#8216;Paradise&#8217; season 2 in LA on Feb. 18, 2026. (Disney\/Ser Baffo)Julianne Nicholson has been cast in season 2 of Task.The actress is set to reprise her Mare of Easttown role as Lori Ross in the upcoming sea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1522942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-09\/E_JulianneNicholson_070926.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 15:45:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-09\/E_JulianneNicholson_070926.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522941,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522936\/revisions\/1522941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}