"Task" 2025. HBO.
 

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Seems to go right to the seediest side of Philly. As well as the most questionable of characters.

I'm not from Philly. Are motorcycle gangs prominent there? I maybe naïve but was wondering if they are a thing of the past.

FBI raids Wheels of Soul clubhouse in Philadelphia in connection with gang shootout outside bar in Virginia - CBS Philadelphia FBI raids Wheels of Soul clubhouse in Philadelphia in connection with gang shootout outside bar in Virginia - CBS Philadelphia

I doubt if they are a thing of the past. I had a client when I was with Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners at the U of Minnesota Law School who was a member of a Wisconsin Minnesota motorcycle gang. I was overjoyed that I did not have to have any dealings with them after I graduated in May of 1989. One of my law students would have had to take care of it. I am pretty sure that gang is still there in the Upper Midwest. Good Question: How Much Of A Threat Are Biker Gangs? - CBS Minnesota


Most motorcycle enthusiasts though are dentists, teachers, stock brokers, librarians, etc. A very small number are in these violent gangs.

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Florida seems to have more motorcycle gang members of the violent kind.

I appreciate the recommendation and from what I've read it is a good show. That said, one of the comments I read online mentioned it really nails the "white trash aesthetic."

Now maybe this reviewer was incorrect in their assessment but Hollywood loves this narrative currently and there are no shortage of shows that examine this. I'm old enough to remember the negative stereotypes of women and minorities on TV during the 60s and 70s. It was wrong then to regularly depict any identity in a negative manner and I'd argue it is still wrong today.

I never liked the phrase "white trash". Hung around with kids from the other side of the tracks in Reno, Nevada when a tween and teenager but they got too violent for me. Or, some of them did. Found books and the avid encouragement of an English teacher at Earl Wooster High School Mrs. Barbara Mitchell. But then the violence returned with the 2-24-1976 murder of her daughter Michelle on my birthday near the University of Nevada, Reno. That really changed how the kids at Wooster saw me. The police rushed to judgement to close the Michelle Mitchell murder but it eventually turned out they got the wrong person. They had focused on someone who some would consider "white trash" but they really should have dug deeper. It was easier on the community to get the case "solved". Quite a huge mess in the long run and the piece of #@$& who committed the crime would probably have continued committing crimes if he had not been in prison in another state. He is basically one depraved soul who could not stop committing crimes unless he was locked up.