To Catch A Smuggler, season 6
release year: 2023
genre: TV documentary show (8 episodes)
viewing setting: home streaming 12/26-__/23
synopsis: Homeland Security officers at different U.S. airports and border crossings go about their jobs daily, inspecting people, vehicles, luggage, and shipped goods for anything bad.
impressions: Point of order: Hulu's online menu has each season at one less than Wikipedia's episode list; since Wikipedia has a 5-episode season one shown, I'm going with them. Therefore...I call this 8-episode 2023 season the sixth season. Anyway...this season had, among other things: a big nighttime sea search yielding a huge load of drugs (episode 1)...some details of the airport dog training (episode 2)...a German agent helping police in Philadelphia make a controlled delivery (episode 3)...a truck at the border crossing with drug parcels right under the hood, on top of the engine (episode 4)...a guy who ate some drug packets but won't admit it (episode 5)...a $51,000,000 bust from an abandoned boat (episode 5)...a gun dealer with some really unusual items (episode 6)...a $250,000 bust in Savannah (episode 6)...smmuggled Mexicans being caught (episode 6)...a fully-loaded vehicle caught in San Diego (episode 7)...testing of a new scanner for airplane interiors (episode 7)...a controlled delivery in Hollywood (episode 8)...a family taking someone else's kid into the U.S. with no paperwork (episode 8)...a truck containing $1,000,000 worth of packaged drugs (episode 8.)
acting: n/a but a number of the officers show up in multiple episodes, and you start to feel like you get to know them (and their approach and tactics) after a while.
final word: Highly entertaining look at the work done to protect the U.S. at its borers and airportsd.
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