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Human Trafficking: Season 1
  • Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 24, 2005
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
54 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    88
    Not only an important series, but a darned good, action-packed one.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    80
    "Human Trafficking" manages edge-of-your-seat suspense and an unsettling blend of Dickensian horrors and documentary-style realism.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    80
    It is unusually good: a harsh public-service message built into a clever, suspenseful thriller.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    75
    Some parts work well; others don't.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Andrew Clevenger
    75
    The movie's tone teeters on the edge of self-righteousness, but the glassy-eyed numbness of the enslaved girls is a devastating portrayal of their living nightmare. [28 Oct 2005, p.77]
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  6. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    70
    Like many Lifetime productions, this one is designed to make you stand up and take action on a hot-button issue. Unlike many, it's got the dramatic chops to keep you on your feet applauding.
  7. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    60
    It's a grim two hours... But it's not overly explicit, and the script and talent are better than most Lifetime films.
  8. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    50
    It's an awful story, and it deserves a better production than this. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]
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  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brownfield
    50
    "Human Trafficking" is at once a sobering, tough-to-watch dramatization about girls taken from the streets of their hometowns around the world and sold into sexual servitude and a clichéd drama about said topic.
  10. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    50
    Perhaps inevitably, with all that focus on the educational component, the story gets short shrift.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    Rarely rises above the level of cut-and-dried cops-and-bad-guys tale.
  12. Variety
    20
    Starring a miscast Mira Sorvino, "Human Trafficking" bludgeons its point home for nearly four hours, and then closes with an honest-to-God speech to ensure that nobody missed it.
  13. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    20
    Sorvino is as wooden as can be throughout. Perhaps she didn't connect with her poorly written role; perhaps she's just straining to understate.
  14. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    10
    Except for a few suspenseful sequences in which women and, occasionally, sympathetic parties try to escape the clutches of the slave traders, the miniseries is muddled, confused and diffuse.
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User Score
9.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 86 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 64 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 67
  3. Negative: 2 out of 67
  1. CathyW.
    10
    I loved this show! I've watched it so many times I really enjoy watching it and learning how people are used for trafficking and I want to know how to help.… Full Review »
  2. JohnnyB.
    10
    I was sickened by the reality of this movie. To think that anyone could treat people, especially children in such a manner. I was a little disappointed at the end for it was unclear to me what the penalty was for the awful people in charge of the human trafficking. It is people like that, that keep me in favor of the death penalty.… Full Review »
  3. melinaP.
    10
    I was shocked. The film illustrates all there is about human trafficking, demonstrating the raw truth. I found all the cast superb, specially the victims and the bad guys. If you have teenagers show the the movie, it covers all the distanve between knowing what human trafficning is and trully understanding what it is and to what extend it threats youngs people freedom and life. Well done to Lifetime.… Full Review »
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