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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 an...

Created By: Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka

  • 2017
  • TV-MA
  • Amazon Prime
  • 2017
  • TV-MA
  • Amazon Prime

Comrade Detective

Season 1 Premiere: Aug 4, 2017
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
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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 an...

Created By: Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
67
77% Positive
10 Reviews
23% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
67
77% Positive
10 Reviews
23% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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85
Aug 5, 2017
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?
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 15, 2017
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.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 3, 2017
Director Rhys Thomas shows admirable restraint in not applying too much period embellishment, or letting Comrade Detective become a one-joke show. It works as drama, as well as comedy, and it seems as if putting it together might have been fun. The finished product certainly is.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 3, 2017
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.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
67
Aug 1, 2017
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.
By Mark A. Perigard FULL REVIEW
58
Jul 31, 2017
Comrade is one of those amusing-in-theory concepts that struggle to rise above the level of a cult-comedy inside joke. [4 Aug 2017, p.56]
By Ray Rahman FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 3, 2017
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.
By James Poniewozik FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
8.0
84% Positive
31 Ratings
5% Mixed
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11% Negative
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11% Negative
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Production Company:
  • A24
  • Amazon Studios
  • Free Association
Initial Release Date: Aug 4, 2017
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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• 1 Win & 4 Nominations

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