Human Trafficking: Season 1

METASCORE

Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Universal acclaim based on 99 Ratings

See All

8.7

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

8.7	Your Score
8.7	User Score Universal acclaim based on 99 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Season Details & Credits

Lifetime | Season Premiere Date: October 24, 2005

Starring: Michael Sorvino, Lynne Adams, Robert Carlyle

Summary: Lifetime's first original miniseries examines the international sexual slavery trade through a series of interconnected stories.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

Watch Now

Buy on

Season 1 Episodes

tbd
S1:E2. Part 2
Air Date: October 25, 2005
tbd
S1:E1. Part 1
Air Date: October 24, 2005

See all Seasons and Episodes

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Linda Stasi

Not only an important series, but a darned good, action-packed one. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

It is unusually good: a harsh public-service message built into a clever, suspenseful thriller. Read full review

Sid Smith

"Human Trafficking" manages edge-of-your-seat suspense and an unsettling blend of Dickensian horrors and documentary-style realism. Read full review

Tom Gliatto

It's an awful story, and it deserves a better production than this. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

Barry Garron

Perhaps inevitably, with all that focus on the educational component, the story gets short shrift. Read full review

Paul Brownfield

"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. Read full review

Tom Shales

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. Read full review

SEE ALL 14 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

8.7

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

User Reviews

Kristien

Nov 6, 2005

This is an excellent movie about a sad sad truth. Opens our eyes that human trafficking doesn't just occur in third world nations, but in ours too. But either way, you wouldn't want to have this happen to anyone from anywhere.

0 of 0 users found this helpful

mikeg

Oct 31, 2005

I haven't yet watched this. All i've seen is the trailer on the website. However it looks like a great miniseries. Part of the film was filmed in montreal where i live. I was there by the beauty parlor when they filmed it, and it was really exciting, There is one mistake in the I haven't yet watched this. All i've seen is the trailer on the website. However it looks like a great miniseries. Part of the film was filmed in montreal where i live. I was there by the beauty parlor when they filmed it, and it was really exciting, There is one mistake in the film. When they are on top of a building in what is supposed to be New York, one sees "A Louer" in the background. This was filmed in downtown montreal and they messed up.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful

ssfourseas

Apr 9, 2018

EXCELLENT! This will be etched in my brain forever. Hoping there is a Season 2. Obviously, the so called 'professional' critics have no taste.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Wanda

Dec 29, 2005

I could not finish watching this series at least two times before I sat and tried to watch it again. It is too emotionally draining and horrifying to see what some humans go through, and some monsters do to innocent people and children! I lost it several times during the first part, I could I could not finish watching this series at least two times before I sat and tried to watch it again. It is too emotionally draining and horrifying to see what some humans go through, and some monsters do to innocent people and children! I lost it several times during the first part, I could not watch anymore abuse. Is this how it really is??! This was the most powerful and moving series I have ever watched.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful

Angelina

Aug 10, 2006

Excellent series, gripping from the first scene, never realized such cruelty would actually exist. Cried and felt sick. Well done to the makers.

0 of 0 users found this helpful

YilinW

Jan 31, 2007

The show was quite good. I was expecting a made for tv drama to be of substandard quality but I was glad to be wrong. This movie truly highlights the nightmare that many people are forced into.

0 of 0 users found this helpful

EmB

Oct 28, 2006

I sympathize with the message but this has to be the worst production I have ever seen. Sorvino is unenthused and dry and I sympthize with Sutherland for having to perform one of the worst scripts in recent memory. Mini Series or not, try again

0 of 0 users found this helpful

SEE ALL 69 REVIEWS

Seasons & Episodes

54

Series Overview
Season 1

54
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 24, 2005
- tbd
  S1:E2. Part 2
  Air Date: October 25, 2005
- tbd
  S1:E1. Part 1
  Air Date: October 24, 2005