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“The Trade” might make you tear up at a few points, and it’s sure to light a fire beneath some viewers’ political trousers, but its dire hopelessness does start to wear and weather after a while, and its immense power gets a bit regurgitative.
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The show is still frustratingly stingy with the kinds of numbers and figures that would provide viewers with a fuller picture of this ongoing catastrophe, and Heineman digs into a moral binary that, at least in the first three installments, fails to resolve the contradictions within his narrative. But it's undoubtedly a more mature work that shines a light on lesser known but no less grievous injustices.