Traffik

Long before it was a Steven Soderbergh movie, Traffik was a six-part British miniseries that took viewers on a roller coaster ride through the drug world, from the poppy fields where the raw opium is grown right along through to the homes of the London teenagers who shoot the refined heroin into their veins. It does a masterful job of showing how these lives are touched by the drug trade along the way while exploring the clumsy way that politicians and law enforcement officials try to deal with a problem they really don’t understand. It’s a masterpiece.