Traffic
  • Network: USA
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 26, 2004
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22

Critic Reviews

  1. Slate
    Reviewed by: Alex Abramovich
    Jun 5, 2014
    60
    While the new series isn't Angels in America, neither is it entirely without merit. It, too, is capably acted and competently shot, and its main conceit—that proceeds from the global drug trade serve as liquid capital for global villains—strikes you as less far-fetched than it might have three or four years ago.
  2. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    Jun 5, 2014
    60
    While Traffic: The Miniseries is definitely not in a league with its predecessors, there are still a number of things to like. [26 Jan 2004]
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  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jun 5, 2014
    60
    When it works, the series effectively portrays the sorrowful human toll the underground trade takes on men and women, parents and children caught up in the struggle either by choice or unseen forces. ... But the weaknesses of this Traffic mirror Soderbergh's stumbles, which is its tendency to brain viewers with the same clumsy force as a Partnership for a Drug-Free America commercial. [24 Jan 2004]
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