Emmy winner Julianne Nicholson is joining the cast of HBO‘s Task — as a character audiences may already know. Nicholson will reprise her role as Lori Ross from Mare of Easttown in season two of Task. Both shows were created by Brad Ingelsby, and both are set in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Those connections led some people to speculate whether the two shows shared a fictional world, which Nicholson’s casting now confirms. Ingelsby, for his part, has been open to the idea of the two shows crossing paths: “They exist in the same world, so it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Mare [Kate Winslet] walked into a Wawa that Tom [Task star Mark Ruffalo] was in,” he told The Hollywood Reporter before Task’s premiere in September 2025. “I don’t have a story in mind that’s a crossover, but I love the idea of their worlds intersecting.” How Lori figures into Task is being kept quiet for the time being. Mare of Easttown ended with (five-year-old spoiler alert) Mare, the police detective played by Winslet, arresting her …