Award-winning journalist Mariana Van Zeller taps into her underworld contacts to embed in the world’s most illicit smuggling pipelines in the second season of Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller.
The season premiers on National Geographic (DStv 181, Starsat 220) on Thursdays at 9pm from 17 February 2022, where in each episode, she puts safety on the line to follow one illegal and often dangerous black-market pipeline, from its source to its final destination.
This season, she goes deeper, but the deeper she goes, the darker it gets as she infiltrates the worlds of black-market plastic surgery, romance scams, stolen cars, outlaw motorcycle clubs, marijuana and meth. Armed with National Geographic’s trademark inside access, each episode follows van Zeller as she works her way inside a different black market or global trafficking network where she meets the players and learns the business, all in an effort to understand the inner workings of the world’s multitrillion-dollar shadow economy.
Trading in ideology
Additionally, as America struggles to reckon with its white supremacist past, van Zeller races to expose an underground movement hellbent on an even more violent white supremacist future. It is a movement that trades in ideologies as dangerous as any narcotic or firearm, responsible for mass killings around the globe.
The 10-part second season of Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller offers viewers a mission-driven adventure to places rarely seen, providing an intimate peek behind the curtain to provide a 360-degree view of these poorly understood trafficking networks.
Diving deeper
“Filming a whole season of Trafficked during a global pandemic was extremely challenging, but there’s been an explosion of black markets over the past year, and I think we all quickly realised that this series has become more relevant than ever,” said van Zeller. “With this second season, we have managed to dive even deeper and gain even more access into underworld networks around the world.”
Season one of Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller was a 2021 Gracie Award winner for Best Reporter/Correspondent – Mariana van Zeller, and received a 2021 Critics Choice Real TV Award nomination for Best Crime/Justice Show. The series was also recently nominated for a 2021 News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary.
What: Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller
Where and when: National Geographic (DStv 181, Starsat 220) on Thursdays at 9pm from 17 February 2022
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