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Comrade Detective

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Amazon Prime | AMAZON | Release Date: August 3, 2017

Summary: A fictional 1980s Romanian police drama series where detectives Gregor Anghel (Florin Piersic Jr.) and Iosef Baciu (Corneliu Ulici) investigate the murder of officer Nikita Ionesco is "found" and remastered with dubbed voices including Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the leads in this comedy series created by Brian Gatewood andA fictional 1980s Romanian police drama series where detectives Gregor Anghel (Florin Piersic Jr.) and Iosef Baciu (Corneliu Ulici) investigate the murder of officer Nikita Ionesco is "found" and remastered with dubbed voices including Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the leads in this comedy series created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Aug 5, 2017

Season 1 Review: The result is a kind of Mad magazine parody of tough-guy 1980s cop shows crossed with a Marxist-Leninist version of Woody Allen's hilariously counterfeit Japanese spy thriller What's Up, Tiger Lily? Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Aug 4, 2017

Season 1 Review: Comrade Detective finds a middle-ground between genres with an internal engine driven not by malicious mockery, but by eye-opening insight. It slips in commentary under the guise of laughter, but the point of the joke, whether you chuckle or not, sticks with you. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Robert Lloyd

Aug 15, 2017

Season 1 Review: The layers of this narrative onion make the characters more complex than perhaps was intended. Crafted to embody a political point, which is at the same time being skewered, they are doubly (at least) fictional. Played by humans, they are inevitably humanized, and at some point, the ironies break down and you care what happens to them, as people. Read full review

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

Mark Dawidziak

Jul 31, 2017

Season 1 Review: Comrade Detective does is not overstay its welcome. There's just enough here to sustain six episodes. That works. Anything more would have been a crime. Read full review

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New York Magazine (Vulture)

Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 3, 2017

Season 1 Review: It draws in you in with the novelty of its approach and keeps you hooked even though what’s happening onscreen is, dramatically and aesthetically speaking, not much deeper or better-made than a Cannon film starring a third-stringer like Michael Dudikoff. But it is intriguing, even if it doesn’t quite justify its modest six-episode run. Read full review

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Boston Herald

Mark A. Perigard

Aug 1, 2017

Season 1 Review: In one of the episode introductions, Tatum says he spent 107 hours in the studio dubbing his role, so much time that he ended up hurting his voice. There’s no way to be sure if he’s telling the truth. But if he is, it was time well and weirdly spent. Read full review

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The New York Times

James Poniewozik

Aug 3, 2017

Season 1 Review: At six long episodes, it drags, and the comedy isn’t fast or frequent enough. Edited to a tighter length, Comrade Detective might deliver better on its agitprop satire. Read full review

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Jan 4, 2021

Excellent play on communist propaganda in an entertaining package.
During the communist times, the common narrative was that everything in Romania was the best in the world, and anything capitalist (read "from USA") was bad, and evil, and degrading.
This TV show imagines what would have beenExcellent play on communist propaganda in an entertaining package.
During the communist times, the common narrative was that everything in Romania was the best in the world, and anything capitalist (read "from USA") was bad, and evil, and degrading.
This TV show imagines what would have been like to watch an "action TV show" created during those times. It's basically a parody on communism.
The delivery is excellent and the fact that it was filmed entirely in Romanian and then dubbed in English adds to the effect. It creates a mental separation that the show is not from US, from Hollywood. It's in a far away communist land. I wouldn't want to view it in Romanian even if I could.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 4, 2017
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