Mare of Easttown’s Julianne Nicholson Reprising Role in Task Crossover
Julianne Nicholson is tackling a new task.
Over five years after Mare of Easttown ended, the actress will reprise her role of Lori Ross—friend of Kate Winslet‘s Mare—in season two of the detective drama Task in a surprise crossover of the two Brad Ingelsby shows.
“Plot twist,” HBO wrote in a July 9 Instagram post, announcing the news. “Julianne Nicholson joins #Task Season 2.”
While revealing Nicholson’s casting, and therefore, the crossover, the streamer shared a photo of Nicholson in the post, in addition to a split-screen image of Mark Ruffalo as his Task character FBI agent Tom Brandis looking through binoculars alongside a still of Nicholson from Mare of Easttown.
The post also featured a clip of Nicholson’s Lori being introduced during a small-town basketball game, adding the words “julianne nicholson joining season 2 of task” over the footage.
Although both Task—which just earned six 2026 Emmy nominations—and Mare of Easttown are created by Ingelsby and are set in the Philadelphia suburbs, it was never revealed that they take place in the same universe…until now.
