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As Robbie Prendergrast, Pelphrey delivers a layered performance as a single father who works as a garbageman by day, but at night becomes a masked robber who steals from various members of a motorcycle gang to keep his family afloat.
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Emily Longeretta, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
In an episode of the new HBO miniseries Task, Pennsylvania garbageman Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) briefly takes hostage one of the members of the law-enforcement task force that’s been chasing him for his side gig robbing drug stash houses.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Trash continued to pile up across more than a dozen Eastern Massachusetts towns and cities as garbagemen remained on strike for a fifth day, this time with support from a local firefighter’s union.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 5 July 2025
Noah would wait every week to see his friend, the garbageman.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 4 May 2025
The garbagemen had not taken away the wheelie bin stuffed with recyclables.
—Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
In the 2020 documentary Giving Voice, one of Wilson’s longtime collaborators notes that part of the playwright’s evocative power came from his choice in subjects: a garbageman who used to play in the Negro Leagues, a trumpet player who never became famous.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Across the country in Clark County, Nevada, just after 8 am in the low-ceilinged room at Calvary Red Rock Church just east of the Las Vegas strip, the band onstage was finishing its set, the lights went up, and Pastor Gregg Seymour strode onto stage, dressed as a garbageman.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
The screaming garbageman is always going to get more attention than the one who just goes about his business quietly and effectively.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Emily Longeretta, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
In an episode of the new HBO miniseries Task, Pennsylvania garbageman Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) briefly takes hostage one of the members of the law-enforcement task force that’s been chasing him for his side gig robbing drug stash houses.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Trash continued to pile up across more than a dozen Eastern Massachusetts towns and cities as garbagemen remained on strike for a fifth day, this time with support from a local firefighter’s union.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 5 July 2025
Noah would wait every week to see his friend, the garbageman.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 4 May 2025
The garbagemen had not taken away the wheelie bin stuffed with recyclables.
—Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
In the 2020 documentary Giving Voice, one of Wilson’s longtime collaborators notes that part of the playwright’s evocative power came from his choice in subjects: a garbageman who used to play in the Negro Leagues, a trumpet player who never became famous.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Across the country in Clark County, Nevada, just after 8 am in the low-ceilinged room at Calvary Red Rock Church just east of the Las Vegas strip, the band onstage was finishing its set, the lights went up, and Pastor Gregg Seymour strode onto stage, dressed as a garbageman.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
The screaming garbageman is always going to get more attention than the one who just goes about his business quietly and effectively.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Garbageman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbageman. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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garbageman
noun
gar·bage·man
ˈgär-bij-ˌman 
: a person who collects and hauls away garbage
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